SOURCE: Annan, Gabriele. “The Proper Study of Mankind Is Books.” Spectator 271, no. 8625 (30 October 1993): 41.

In the following positive review, Annan finds Essays in Love to be “witty, funny, [and sophisticated,” and asserts the book is full of insightful observations.]

On a BA flight from Paris to London the narrator picks up Chloe who happens to be sitting in the next seat. He takes her out to dinner, they go to bed together, fall in love and begin a serious affair. After a while Chloe loses interest. On the BA flight back from a weekend in Paris, she confesses that she has slept with the narrator's American friend Will. The narrator is devastated. Chloe follows Will to California. The narrator botches a suicide attempt (vitamin C instead of sleeping pills) and falls into a long depression from which he emerges three pages from the end while sitting next to Rachel...