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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Well, I don't like the description of "chick's novel" which sounds like a putdown. However, I take you to mean that it is a novel about relationships, feelings, emotions, rather than a book involving a lot of action. I certainly agree with that.[...]
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Yes, I thought the description might garner some reaction - but I don't really mean it in a derogatory sense. It's more that the interactions between Irene and Clare are familiar to me, but I cannot say that I really understand them. It's not the emotional content, men have emotions too, it's the manner of their interaction. It may seem potentially sexist to say (and possibly is), but the interactions are familiar from what I've seen between women that I know - hence I wondered whether women may understand/relate-to this novel better than men, hence possibly a "chick's novel" in a more literal sense than usually meant by the phrase.