Pin-sharp satire from a modern-day Dorothy Parker. What a pity it curdles into agitprop…
Exciting Times Rating: Naoise Dolan W&N £14.99 Very few authors are able to write snappy one-liners, which have to be as compact and forceful as poetry, but here’s a young novelist who’s a virtuoso. Her narrator, Ava, is particularly acerbic when talking about an entitled young woman called Victoria. With Exciting Times, her first novel, … Read more