The Unbreakables by Lisa Barr

The Unbreakables by Lisa Barr

There’s something melodramatically untidy about The Unbreakables, the story of a woman who plunges herself into a period of hedonistic self-discovery in France when her husband confesses to a double-digit number of affairs.  On the whole it thinks itself much more daring than it is, and sometimes the melodrama pitches a little bit too high,…

The Plus One by Sarah Archer

The Plus One by Sarah Archer

If you’ve seen the John Malkovich movie Making Mister Right, you will be familiar with the premise of Sarah Archer’s The Plus One. All about a woman who literally creates her ideal boyfriend from code she’s written, It’s very much a rollicking eighties romcom with a twenty-first century gloss on its lips.  Parts of it…

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