Book Review: Green Dot by Madeleine Gray

By Simon Demetriou

If you’re going to tell a story that even your narrator acknowledges is unoriginal, you’ve effectively got three methods of ensuring your story is better than other, similar stories. You can make us fall in love with your characters; you can include enough unexpectedness in either your observations or your intermediate plotting; or you can write with sharper phrasing than other writers. Madeleine Gray’s debut tells the story of a younger woman having an affair with an older man who – surprise!