A woman’s father tries to adjust after his wife’s death. Outwardly he’s living it up, but not so much behind closed doors. This is an excerpt from Navarro’s new book The Voices of Adriana that I’m defintely going to pick up.

 In addition to ‘sweetheart’, there was the ‘This time I think I’ve found the one for me’. ‘What’s-her-name is a darling, I think she’s the one for me,’ he’d told Adriana on ten, twenty, thirty occasions, with the phone or computer at hand, ready to start a new conversation with the next headless woman. ‘Just in case,’ he always replied when she objected to the contradiction involved in saying he’d found the one for him and then immediately linking up with someone else.