Nick Hornby is, though, also passionate about the opposite sex. Having separated from his second wife, the film producer Amanda Posey, Hornby is, I hear, enjoying an ardent romance with a woman ...

Was there not a Darcy, a Knightley, or (more likely) an Edmund Bertram or Captain Wentworth lurking in her own past? Gill Hornby has taken these questions and turned them, delightfully and ingeniously ...