April 2023

Reviewed by Antonella Townsend It is said of Genevieve Novak that she writes character-led romantic comedies, perhaps the genre needs expanding, the first category being unlikely fantasy in-a-perfect-world- romcom, or, in the case of Novak’s Crushing, truth-revealing, the-thinking-person’s-romcom.  Novak’s writing is insightful and witty, her characters messy, fun, and, finally, brave, as they realise that

Reviewed by Wendy Lipke This is not the first book that I have read with a similar plot. A small group of people finds themselves in an out-of-the-way place, isolated when something unexpected happens. It is what happens to them that makes this story different. For me this story was overly seasoned with sexual innuendo,