The Uncoupling. Meg Wolitzer Chatto & Windus; £12.99

THERE will be high drama in a Limerick fast food outlet tonight.

If you were a young man in the Peace Corps assigned to Afghanistan under the Taliban, what would you miss most? Razor blades? Hardly. Music? Maybe for some. The answer is pretty obvious. Movies. Could you do without seeing a single film for 24 months? I doubt it. You’d probably come back in a straitjacket, screaming in agony.