The BBC’s adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People, a story of two literary-minded teenagers who embark on a tortured decade-long romance, is imperfect lockdown viewing. For anyone with memories of “young love” and the debris it leaves behind, bright-eyed photographs, little scribbled notes, and dedications on the inside of book covers “All my love X”, it is sweetly/painfully resonant.
French Letter: Bretons look to the future with a healthy scepticismÂ
Viewed from central Brittany, everything that isn’t local is far away and of only passing interest.