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Intimacy

By: Hanif Kureishi
Narrated by: Selva Rasalingam
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Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds, he remembers the ups and downs of his relationship with Susan. In an unforgettable and often pitiless reflection of their time together, he analyses the agonies and the joys of trying to make a life with another person.

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When a book and a film are different, but both good. Very robust prose. Very sincere and in a way tragic .

That rare case

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Like intimacy itself, this book is intense. It's like being caught up in a perfect storm of emotions that are the landscape of relationships.

Intense

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Infuriating for all the mothers out there trying to keep hearth and home together in the face of a man for whom washing up just isn't his thing and who would rather chase young women round.But have to admit it's a good listen.

Diary of a Narcissist aged 55 and 3/4

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A story about an averagely depressed man - could as easily have been a woman, maturity and marital dissatisfaction cuts both ways- & will test how much you’ve been interpellated.

Meditative and sad

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A portrait of an extravagant midlife crisis, this story is filled with 2D caricatures (including the protagonist himself)- the nagging wife, the uxorious best friend, the feckless divorcé in his bomb site flat. Describing, but not really exploring, themes including the changes a long term relationship goes through, parenthood, ageing and maturity, nostalgia and wanting to start fresh (and do it better this time). Despite this novel seeming like a selfish love letter to reliving & redoing one’s past with the benefit of hindsight, partner left holding the bag (the bag containing two infants), I did grudgingly enjoy this tale and would recommend it just to sneer at the protagonist’s self-absorbed delusion.

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