Book review: Paula Cocozza’s Speak to Me is a wake up call on how tech murders romance

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Readers may identify with alienation felt by the protagonist in Cocozza’s second novel Speak to Me, whose husband’s smartphone has become ‘the other woman’

Obsession pervades the novels of Guardian writer and author Paula Cocozza.

In her debut How to Be Human, a woman is fixated on a fox while her domestic life breaks down around her. In this follow-up, a woman and her husband are increasingly separated by their preoccupations – him with his smartphone, her with a box of letters from her first love.

 

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