As you probably already know, Babygirl is the new film written and directed by Halina Reijn, starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson, in which Kidman plays a CEO who gets involved with a young intern. When I searched for “books like Babygirl movie,” Google returned dozens of romance novels—including Anyone But You by Jennifer Cruise and The Idea of You by Robinne Lee—but only a handful of literary or mainstream novels.

Nothing against the romance genre, but why must the subject of an age gap in which the woman is older be relegated to a single niche, while stories of relationships between older men and younger women have long been the norm in literary fiction and in film?