Their caustic relationship, however, doesn't prove to be as picture perfect as it seems, as each struggles with addiction (whether sex, drugs or alcohol) and mental health issues.

He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. I overall highly recommend this book to anyone looking for something that will make your heart warm and shattered at the same time.it touched on a lot of things that it failed to explore them in a more meaningful way, so that the important topics became a quirky backdrop for the characters instead. Either described as poignant and relatable or shallow and pretentious, this debut novel from Coco Mellors feels like the personification of an Instagram filter—something that simultaneously enhances and yet covers up reality. I, like every vaguely creative young person, have multiple diagnoses, but my brain chemistry failures never include installing art with my self harmed body at the center for my loved ones to find, I will tell you that.

When Cleo meets Frank, who is twenty years older than her, he offers her a chance for happiness for the first time in her life.while this seems like the classic ‘young twenty-something woman starts dating the older richer man’ story (which we all know and love), mellors’ unique narrative style offers a fresh new take. everybody seems to love eleanor because she is down to earth and funny but to me she was so mediocre. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. There isn't much of a plot to speak of, beyond the shifting dynamics and relationships built between them, namely Cleo and Frank, a semi-green-card marriage built mostly on passion and age difference, and those around them: Frank's younger half-sister, Zoë; Frank's friends, Anders, and another more boring and half-hearted inclusion whose name I don't remember; Cleo's best friend Quentin; Zoë's best friend Audrey; and finally, ELEANOR.

the book perfectly captures the messiness and complexities of relationships in the modern world, especially what happens when the honeymoon phase starts to wear off and reality sets in. She, an early 20s artist, and he, a mid-40s ad executive, bond over their troubled family histories and seek solace in one another. A tender, devastating and funny exploration of love and friendship and the yearning for self-evisceration. Cleopatra and Frankenstein is an astounding and painfully relatable debut novel about the spontaneous decisions that shape our entire lives and those imperfect relationships born of unexpectedly perfect evenings. her hair is described as 'golden', her face, a 'performance', her clothes and makeup give her a vintage yet distinctive aura (i made the mistake of looking up coco mellors and could no longer divorce the author from the character.deleted my old review because i was senselessly ranting, but i still do think this felt painfully self-indulgent, more so than the works of sally rooney – of which this book has been exhaustively compared to. Eleanor, the character which filled the least amount of chapters in this book, was probably the most likeable, and dare I say original.

If you'd like to read a good book I'm sure that anything else you have on hand would be a better use of your time on this planet. Part of me longed to get to the bits where her quirky personality hit the pages and her relationship with Frank was seen through, because that is what they both deserved. these ppl are boring and the author's attempts to make them into rooney-esque figures, well, tis' cringe. Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. either way I have come to realize that I adore SUFFERING through books, I want to become really fucking depressed by a book, I want to feel the urge to rip my heart out and stab it back in.Mellors also does not have the ability to make her insufferable characters compelling like Moshfegh. You have to be willing to go on a journey that doesn't necessarily leave our protagonists shining and shimmering in the end. She offers him a life imbued with beauty and art—and, hopefully, a reason to cut back on his drinking.