This collection of themed stories on modern love reflect on moments of kinship, loneliness, ecstasy and sadness in contemporary Paris.
Desplechin's women are not asking for much: but how much is too much? How long should they wait? And what should they do in the meantime?
(Granta, £6.99)
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