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==Literary fiction==
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|author=Siri Hustvedt
|title=The Summer Without Men
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sometime after Mia's husband of thirty years, Boris, suggests a marriage 'pause', Mia goes mad and finds herself in a psychiatric hospital. Although this Brief Psychotic Disorder does not last long, she remains fragile and retreats to the town in Minnesota where she was brought up and where her elderly mother still lives. While Boris cavorts with the Pause, she struggles through the summer, learning to live without him. She builds relationships with her mother's friends, with her neighbours and with a group of teenage girls who form her creative writing class. Written in the first person, the book catalogues her progress using these friendships, her past, her reading and her shrink, Dr S.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444710524</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Edward Docx
