David Nicholls, the Man Booker Prize nominee, says stories of unconventional families and romance in older age are likely to become more common to reflect “huge cultural change”
Man Booker Prize nominee David Nicholls Photo: IBL/REX
The Telegraph 08 Mar 2015
For some years, the world of romantic fiction has been dominated by the hapless 30-something woman who fears she has missed out on love, only to find The One a few hundred pages later.
But the era of Bridget Jones and her descendants could soon be surpassed by a new trend: divorce comedy. Authors have predicted that the rise of the so-called “silver splitter” — those who divorce later in life — will see novels about finding love a second time grow in popularity.
David Nicholls, the Man Booker Prize nominee, said stories of unconventional families and romance in older age are likely to become more common to reflect “huge cultural change”.
Speaking at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in Dubai, Nicholls said the longer lives of readers around the world meant that the prospect of “another 40 years of marriage”, even once a couple hit middle age, could seem “quite scary”.
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