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“It is so unusual, I’ve never read a book like it. The concept of the book and the way it’s a woman speaking about a distinct time in a woman’s life—it’s like: ‘Who am I? What do I want? Am I a mum, doing small town things? Am I more than that? Do I want an adventure? Should I completely derail my life? It’s chock, chock full of life. Literally bursting with life.” Read more...
The Best Novels: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Kit de Waal, Novelist
“It’s a midlife crisis novel (The New York Times reviewer hailed it ‘the first great perimenopause novel’) in which the protagonist, a married artist in her forties, upends her life and holes up in a roadside motel she embarks on an affair with a much younger man. If you’re ready to radically reimagine what monogamy and midlife might look like, this is the book for you.” Read more...
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
