Rachel Cooke takes a wry, robust and wide-ranging look at the let-downs and disappointments of love, and how to overcome them.
The let-downs and disappointments of romantic love, from the crushing experience of being stood up to the modern day equivalent - being left 'on read'. Taking in Sex in the City; that great chronicler of quiet heartbreak, Anita Brookner and the paintings of Francis Danby, Rachel Cooke surveys the perils and pitfalls of dating and argues that kissing a few frogs may not be such a bad thing after all.
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