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Eliot wrote the seminal psychological novel “Middlemarch,” a matchless magnum opus Virginia Woolf famously considered “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.”

Daniel Menaker was the author of several books, including the memoir “My Mistake” and the comic psychological novel “The Treatment,” adapted into a 2007 movie starring Chris Eigeman and Ian Holm.

Immediately, we’re taken out of the sense of interiority we associate with the psychological novel.

It’s a masterful psychological novel, full of rich characterization and a surprisingly gripping narrative.

Her tense psychological novel of a trouble marriage, “A Separation,” is getting plenty of buzz this season — and just got optioned for a movie.