"Annie Lord speaks before she thinks. That’s not a dig, by the way: it’s an observation she makes of herself in her debut book Notes on Heartbreak, a memoir about the disintegration of a five-year relationship, and it’s something she helpfully demonstrates within seconds of us meeting at her home in south London. “I was on a night out recently and I saw a guy who works out at my gym. I pointed at him and said, ‘you go to my gym!’ Obviously now I see him all the time when I’m there and it’s embarrassing – like why did I say that?” she says, shaking her head as she makes me a cup of tea."