![]() Following their quick love and quick marriage, the narrative does not rely on plot as it weaves itself across the different characters that make up their lives: Cleo and Frank themselves, as well as the friends and family who step in and out of the scene, a RomCom cast fitting of both the novel’s story as well as its understanding of imperfect human relationships and what they reveal about identity and self. ![]() The story begins with a RomCom meet-cute, young British artist Cleo running into middle-aged successful Frank in the elevator during a mutual friend’s New Year’s Party in the wake of the mid-2000s. Mellors’s debut novel, Cleopatra and Frankenstein, is a portrait of love and becoming, spread across marriage, friendship, addiction, art, trauma, and all of the ugly and sparkling things left in their wake. ![]()
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