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The star makes for a charming lead playing a mother falling for a younger pop star in a passable adaptation of Robinne Lee’s bestselling pulpThere are lithe, low-level pleasures to be had in the glossy pop romance The Idea of You, Amazon’s latest att...
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With four million copies sold and three books in adaptation, the Beach Read author is riding high. She talks about hope, TikTok tropes and escapismA few weeks after Emily& Henry’s second romance novel, You and Me on Vacation, was published in May 202...
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The fortysomething turned her wildest fantasy – about running off with a boyband member for hot sex in fabulous locations – into a bestseller. As it hits the screen, Lee talks about writing steamy scenes in Starbucks – and her terror of being judgedL...
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A midlife couple take a hike through the Lake District in this witty and likable crowd-pleaserDavid Nicholls enjoys a bit of structural scaffolding. In his debut, 2003’s student romance Starter for Ten, it is the TV quiz University Challenge. A Europ...
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This partly factual drama about the bright young things of British Mandate Tel Aviv offers insights into the politics of the timeNow is as good a time as any to better understand Israel, and Michael Winterbottom may be the film-maker best placed to a...