Before She Met Me

"This is a very funny short book about a man who becomes obsessed with his girlfriend’s sexual past. It’s about how intense jealousy can be. People think they can cope with a lover’s past history but really there is always a struggle. His look at human nature is disturbing. Because we all think we can cope, that we’re always right about how we deal with things but Barnes forces the reader to look at a different angle on relationships. I think they don’t stay together in this book, but it makes the hairs on the back of my neck all prickly. Get the weekly Five Books newsletter"