Hannah Pittard’s novel, inspired by her husband’s infidelity, is the latest novel to entertainingly dissect female dissatisfaction.

Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go was published 20 years ago. Since then, the Japanese-born English writer has been awarded the Nobel Prize in 2017 and knighted for services to literature in 2018.

A trio of the 17th-century Dutch painter’s works featuring women writing and receiving letters is on display at the recently ...