Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave review – a will-they-won’t-they queer romance

Two women fall into and out of each other’s lives over decades, in a moving examination of love and choices Given that novels are routinely touted as the new version of some previous chartbuster, Almost Life will doubtless be heralded as One Day meets Normal People for a sexually fluid generation. Featuring romantic indecisions spanning many years and an unironic take on the youthful psyche, it already reads as familiar. The novel opens in Paris in 1978 with a moment of affinity on the steps ...

By Joanna Briscoe