Paperback: The Superpower of Love by Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah's enjoyable third novel puts the fizz back into the relationship saga, especially the kind involving ageing singletons on the verge of marriage. For a start, her characters aren't the usual round up of media popsies – Pennines-based and Cambridge-educated, this set of friends includes an analytical philosopher (specialising in Vagueness), a soap story-line editor and a clean-living couple whose approaching wedding is causing havoc. Hannah's comic gift for unraveling the relationship maze makes the complexities of domestic life interesting again.