Review: Simply Excellent
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2014
"The Younger Man" by Dermot Davis is a beautifully warm and thoughtful novel. 38, divorced and in therapy, Frances has kind of sworn off all men when she is approached twice by younger men for dates.That is the premise but if you think you are in for a simplistic dating chick lit then you are only right in parts. With an analytical and highly reflective approach Davis (and his character Frances) live through the challenges that the dating-after-heartache and the dating-someone-younger throws at his characters.There are further complications in the mix through friends and family, who serve as great reflectors and catalysts for the plot. There is an unpretentious honesty and directness about this book taht resonates a little with the best episodes of 'Sex and the City', which were just as poignant and spot on about relationships.Written by a man but 'told' from a female perspective the book doesn't lose any of its credibility, I would never have known the difference, a sign of a writer that is a good listener and has great empathy in other humans.It is however not all anaylsis and deep thinking, there is plenty of fun in this novel, great one liners and hilarioussmall observations and scenes.Simply excellent.