Pages For Her Sylvia Brownrigg Picador €18.51

In this intimate and insightful novel, Brownrigg revisits Flannery Jensen and Anne Arden, whose brief but passionate affair she exquisitely chronicled in Pages For You. It’s 20 years on and Flannery has married Charles, an artist, and raised a beloved daughter but lost her sense of self in the process. Anne is similarly uneasy in her life, having been jilted by fellow academic Jasper, who’s left her for a younger lover. The women meet up at a literary conference and, with conversation and kisses, rediscover their love and manage to reconnect with all that they hold dear. Eithne Farry