Tag: relationships

  • Love in Exile

    Love in Exile

    by Shon Faye Paperback, £12.99 Right from the first chapter of this insightful and engaging memoir and investigation into the politics of love, Faye made me question how I view the topic. Her writing is both rigorously researched and entertaining – Love in Exile is a clever analysis of how political and social influences can…

  • It Might Never Happen

    It Might Never Happen

    By Emily Slapper Hardback, £16.99 The cover and the first page of this book drew me in because I suspected it would fit into the same niche as Sally Rooney and Naoise Dolan – and having read it, I think it does – but it has something a little different. Slapper’s writing is more visceral,…

  • This Must be the Place, by Maggie O’Farrell

    Hardback, Tinder Press, £18.99, out now – limited number of signed copies available in store Daniel is an American academic married to a reclusive former film star, and living in rural Ireland.  His happy second marriage to Claudette has produced two young children, to add to the ones he left in California and never sees. …