The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam review – a deft take on tech times

A witty investigation into the misogyny and bro culture of the world of startups and social media apps

From John Carreyrou's award-winning Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup to Reeves Wiedeman's WeWork shakedown Billion Dollar Loser, the real-life stories coming out of startup land are so far-fetched that you could be forgiven for thinking there's no ground left for invention.

So what role can fiction play in this world with no boundaries - between home and work, love and business, purpose and profit? Tahmima Anam's fourth novel attempts to answer this by taking inspiration from her experience as executive director of ROLI, a music technology startup founded by her husband.