Review: The Photographer’s Wife

Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton in a scene from The Great Gatsby, a movie based on F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel of the same title, set in the 1920s. In The Photographer’s Wife, the women in the expat community are glamorous and self-indulgent. Photo: Warner Bros Pictures

When writing a book review, I try to figure out who the intended readership of the book is.

What I may find unlikeable may in fact be the very traits that the intended readership of a work may love; the reverse may also be true.