The bereaved in question is George, a gloriously prickly professor struggling to get over the loss of his partner, Jim. The opposite of a “happily ever after”, Isherwood’s novel explores what happens when the person you love dies. If you’re having relationship problems, think: “What would Anna Karenina do?” Then do the opposite.Ĥ. Caught between fierce love, insecurity, hypocritical social pressures and the plodding presence of her husband, she finds it impossible to extricate herself. Her brother’s womanising is tolerated Anna’s less so. Love and marriage belong in two different boxes in this sprawling, epic account of the married Countess Anna Karenina’s doomed love affair with Count Vronsky.
The novel explores what it means to be faithful and the subtle nature of a successful marriage.
Once Fermina is widowed following an unfortunate incident involving a mango tree and a parrot, they meet again and become a couple. Fermina marries someone else they live separate lives and grow old. Two young lovers, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza, are parted by the latter’s disapproving father. This is a luscious, complicated tale of lingering teenage passion, told by Colombia’s Nobel prize-winning master of magical realism. Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Marquez Beneath the fun and the fluff there is a quietly profound exploration of the assumptions around autism and what it means to have an atypical – or a typical – brain.ĩ. Enter chaos in the form of Rosie, who meets none of the criteria but nonetheless, well, ticks his box. This is more of a challenge when that someone is Don Tillman, who cooks exactly the same thing every week according to The Standardised Meal System, calculates everyone’s BMI on first glance, and decides to find a wife by distributing a questionnaire. Let’s start with something light: a successful relationship usually means adjusting to how someone else sees the world.
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