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HAVING published her brilliant book Is Monogamy Dead? in 2017, comedian Rosie Wilby is back with another witty and self-reflective exploration of romantic relationships.
This time her focus is the near-universal experience of the breakup, with much of the material presumably coming out of her long-running The Breakup Monologues podcast.
In an attempt to get to grips with her own history of serial monogamy and serial separations and provide useful insights for the reader, Wilby adeptly mixes LOL memoir with academic studies, testimonials from other comedians and friends and lists of break-up songs and films.
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