This is a book about love, but love of a peculiar sort, because it examines the love stories of 28 movies produced between the 1930s and today. Cherry Potter summarises the plots of all 28, linking them by a running commentary on how the treatment of love varies from age to age. She tells the stories so excellently that the book might become a bedside book, a story a night, but her commentary is what counts more. It is delightful and highly original. Clearly Potter, an expert on screen-writing, has had much experience of the theme she writes about so enticingly.

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