North West, Meghan Markle’s return and the man-child epidemic

Why do so many adult men seem stuck in arrested development? We review the buzzy new novel from the “male Sally Rooney” Jem Calder, whose rom-com I Just Want You to Be Happy charts a dysfunctional age-gap relationship between a 35-year-old man-child and 23-year-old woman. Also on the show: our thoughts on the backlash to North West’s “age inappropriate” Dazed cover, Meghan Markle’s new career move, Kendall Jenner and Jacob Elordi’s hard launch and a possible sequel to How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.

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Recs/reviews

I Want You to be Happy, Jem CalderI Want You to Be Happy is the excruciating millennial novel everyone will be reading this summer, The IndependentAlice and Steve, Disney PlusPrue Leith – On leaving Bake Off and finding love again at 70, Experience is EverythingKendall Jenner and Jacob Elordi’s Dating World Tour Continues in London, VogueNorth West: ‘Music is what I wanna do with my life’, DazedFresh Hell, Tina Brown’s Substack.

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