However, they do provide a unique anthropological opportunity and in some ways, I think this is what Nina is really doing as she’s swiping. She has a pretty cynical attitude to dating apps, which is highly believable because I know that they’re really not fun places to be, when you’re a woman who dates men. She has a talent for analysing human behaviour and her conclusions are always amusing and relatable. Nina (and therefore, Alderton) is a wizard at social observations. Her wonderful, witty, beloved father’s mind is deteriorating, her mother doesn’t seem to be coping (or even acknowledging that anything is wrong), all of her friends seem to be becoming real adults with new lives that she can’t relate to and her first foray into dating apps ends in her a horrifically brutal ghosting. However, there is so much in her life that appears to not be so happy. Nina Dean is 32, a successful food writer with a lovely London flat and a great group of friends. Dolly Alderton is one of these women, so I was delighted when I heard that she’d written a novel. These women are me and I am them, so they always manage to bury their way into my heart. I have a real soft spot for novels featuring smart, sassy millennial women, navigating the gauntlet that is the modern world.
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