Following on from her debut How to Be Human, in which a woman became obsessed with a fox, Guardian journalist Paula Cocozza returns with another story about an unlikely relationship. This time, however, it’s one that’s more familiar: a man who is in love with his mobile.
The narrator is Susan, a woman with a delicious sense of humour and a grudge against her husband’s telephone, which she names after Peter Pan’s Wendy. Wendy is adored by Susan’s husband, Kurt. Wendy never leaves his side. He strokes, cajoles and fondles Wendy, often at the most unwelcome moments, and as much as Susan attempts to get between them, she is never successful. Kurt is either cradling Wendy in his arms as he drifts off to sleep, or she lies triumphantly on his chest each evening, as though he were nursing a small child.
