The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

Is this fiction or non-fiction? No one knows.

The book follows Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, as Ernest endeavours to start out as a writer. It is interesting and the narrative is well written and fairly engrossing but it lacks sufficient drama to be properly termed a novel. It is a bit like a book version of Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris - fun, surreal and easy but ultimately a bit self satisfied. In summary, I shall borrow an eloquent phrase from a sullen teenager I happened to be sitting next to on the bus this morning "s'alright".