The fifth instalment to the beloved Girls series sees Ellie, Magda and Nadine at age 40 – but this story still feels straight from the mind of a teenage girl
had written her first book for adults, the ruckus of thousands of millennial women could have registered on the Richter scale.
The experience of reading Wilson as a child was magical – her characters and their emotions so easily recognisable by a young brain, her stories so gripping, her imagined worlds so cocooning. But the question in everyone’s minds is whether those skills translate to an adult novel – which requires grappling with more darkness, more depth, more complexity.
Having signposted in the first paragraph that we are no longer in the realms of first-base fumbles or hormonal strops by dishing the dirt on Ellie’s sex life , we learn that Ellie got pregnant at art school and brought up Lottie as a single mum in a council flat .
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