British literary expert Patricia Nichol, shared a selection of novels featuring affairs including Marian Keyes's Grown Ups and Graham Greene's The End Of The Affair.

What follows is my list of the three all-time best breakup ... The whole book is the moody monologue of a man sitting at a bar telling a woman about a bruising affair that has haunted him.

The Only Story is told by Paul and recounts his long-term love affair with Susan Macleod ... but only fleetingly a happy one. In books, as in life, no one is taken aback by a woman with an ...