Farzah Draki

You know, a lot of men's websites have been discussing this book and its critique of men and, yeah, so it's incredibly divisive but it's caused this incredible conversation in South Korea at the moment that is still being affected.

It's amazing.

Yeah, absolutely.

I actually think the last sentence in the book is one of the most gut-wrenching sentences and I feel like we can say it, Kate, without giving away.

Well, at the end...

We do find out that, yes, this is actually the psychiatrist who's framing her life and he kind of talks about how he initially diagnosed her with a dissociative disorder and then considered that it was maybe, I think, postnatal depression.

And then there is this really sort of interesting part of it where he talks about his own wife's experience and how she's now a stay-at-home mother

And he seems quite oblivious to her concerns.

And so it's sort of really interesting at the end to find out it's just a guy who's writing about her.

And like the husband in the novel, he doesn't really understand her.

I think a lot of these...

concerns that women are having are quite private and they've not been talked about.

Was that your sense of it?

Yeah, absolutely.

And can we mention the very last sentence?

Please do.

So the last sentence of the novel, so it's from the perspective of the psychiatrist, as you said, and he says he's talking about his receptionist, I think, who has had to quit because she's just had a child.

And he kind of talks about that but then talks about how it's had an effect on their psychiatry business.

And the last sentence is, I'll have to make sure her replacement is unmarried.

It's the sting in the tail for the book.