The fictions of a flourishing marriage in Korelitz's new novel

Jean Hanff Korelitz’s new novel is about self-deception, says Richard Fitzpatrick.

THE American novelist, Jean Hanff Korelitz is in Ireland this week to read alongside her husband, the poet, Paul Muldoon, as part of the Cork Spring Poetry Festival.

As a writer, Korelitz is interested in the lies we tell ourselves. She will publish her fifth novel, You Should Have Known, in March. The title is the name of a book written by Korelitz’s protagonist, Grace, a therapist, on why relationships fail.