By Lucy Ellmann. A few years ago scientists prematurely touted a revolution in energy creation, a cheap, endless supply of electricity for a power-dependent world. As headline-stealing discoveries go, it was a flop. People fail to fuse in this millennial England.
Sex occurs in furtive encounters with strangers.
Father-daughter bonds, already frail, unravel under the weight of slender expectations. And it's the best of the lot. Now we have Nick Hornby's About a Boy , featuring a narrator who pretends to adopt a son, the better to woo single mothers. The best-selling Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding details the acrobatic efforts of thirtysomething women to attract men. Bridget counts calories as obsessively as the Weather Channel tracks sleet.