“Am I lonely, she asks herself, pushing open the fire door and out into the night, if I have no one to talk to? Of course not: I’m married.” Yet Lucia Hanrahan, the main character in The Exhibitionist, Charlotte Mendelson’s fifth novel, isn’t just married. She is also browbeaten, emotionally abused, professionally frustrated and was recently mutilated after a casual question to her GP turned into one scan, then another, and then the worst happened, leaving her buying “Bra Boosters, for excited small-titted girls with high hopes” after a botched breast reconstruction. - The Times