The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood (Simon & Schuster, £7.99)
What at first sight appears to be just another middle-class, coming-of-age novel written all too preciously is, on closer inspection, a sensitive study on the collision of individuals. Oscar Lowe works in a Cambridge nursing home, Iris Bellwether is a medical student at the university and their coming together is slow and disruptive but also tender.
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