Essayer OR - Gratuit
Blake serves sharp satire but lacks substance
The Star
|November 18, 2025
GIRL DINNER
THERE'S a certain kind of book that promises to say something profound about power, ambition and womanhood, and then it collapses under the weight of its own cleverness.
Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake teeters dangerously close to that edge, but even when it stumbles you cannot quite look away.
Olivie Blake's Girl Dinner is one of those books that sounds better in theory than it reads in practice.
It's meant to be a sharp satire about womanhood, ambition and belonging, but it often ends up feeling like hard work.
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