Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester review a battle between millennials and boomers

"Over the last decade and a half that gap appears to have narrowed. His 2012 bestseller, Capital, used the global economic crisis (explained with characteristic verve and lucidity in the nonfiction Whoops!) to lend a sharply moral edge to a sprawling Dickensian story about the London property bubble, told through the class cross-section of a newly affluent south London street."

"Kate and Jack have been married for 30 years. Like many long-term couples they have evolved a shared private language, an exclusive and often unkind vernacular of nicknames, references and in-jokes. Phoebe Mull is a generation younger and the writer behind the year's runaway hit TV show, Cheating, an unapologetically amoral depiction of intergenerational adultery."

"if the novel has a state-of-the-nation agenda, it lies in the inequity between the boomers who have helped themselves to everything and the millennials who must live with the consequences."

John Lanchester's fiction increasingly engages with real-world crises. His 2012 novel Capital examined the London property bubble during the global economic crisis, while The Wall depicted a dystopian Britain fortified against climate refugees. His latest work, Look What You Made Me Do, shifts focus from political to personal territory. Set in north London among architects and agents, the novel follows Kate and Jack, a 30-year married couple with their own private language of in-jokes and nicknames. When they discover that a successful TV show about adultery by younger writer Phoebe Mull mirrors intimate details of their own lives, tensions escalate. The novel addresses generational inequity, examining how boomers have accumulated wealth while millennials face the consequences.

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