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The making of a book about a break-up - an unpredictable version called Over,

'the comma in the title should reveal from the outset that any redemption or closure is out of the question'

ruth rosengarten
May 05, 2026
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OVER, is the story of a breakup as unexpected as it was predictable. The story is, drama aside, banal. A woman d’un certain age meets a man on an online dating app, they fall in into lust and then apparently into love too, but life gets in the way (his life) and he ditches her by email. The backdrop is the Covid 19 pandemic, …

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