Today A Woman Went Mad In The Supermarket Hilma Wolitzer

Bloomsbury £14.99 Written over more than half a century, these 13 stories circle themes such as love, insomnia and motherhood. Many feature the same New York couple, among them The Great Escape, set in 2020 and anchored in 91-year-old Wolitzer’s experience of losing her husband to Covid. It’s a powerful close to a collection that’s beady-eyed and often humorous, its pages packed with details that reveal as much as entire novels.