Originally published anonymously to much controversy and huge success in 1925, Ursula Parrott’s Ex–Wife is the funny, frank and moving tale of Patricia an ad-exec and divorcee in 20s New York.

She is a brilliant creation, discussing work, sex and city life with a kind of zingy candour that reminds us of Dorothy Parker, Nora Ephron or Dolly Alderton.

It seems strange that such a sparkling depiction of single life in the jazz-age has hever been in print in the UK before now.

It turns out that the perfect cocktail-hour read has been 100 years in the making.