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Gretchen Shirm’s The Crying Room and Briohny Doyle’s Why We Are Here share a preoccupation with death and grief and what it means to live on, without intimate others, during a climate crisis. Both novels feature protagonists who lose parents and partners, and both explore their themes via writer-narrators who…

Barbara, 69, and Susie, 56, became close friends in 2020, when they were living at the same apartment complex in Bordeaux. They now speak every day and go on regular holidays together

Often unsettling and sensitive novel follows a thread of emotional repression through three generations of women

‘You look like a sensible man,’ yelled someone near the front. ‘Why are you queuing to see a stupid film about DOLLS?’