Scan barcode
Hot Girl Reading List - hosted by sageysage
Exciting Times - Naoise Dolan
An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer
Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children.
Julian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than I like you a great deal.
Enter Edith. A Hong Kong-born lawyer, striking and ambitious, Edith takes Ava to the theater and leaves her tulips in the hallway. Ava wants to be her--and wants her.
And then Julian writes to tell Ava he is coming back to Hong Kong... Should Ava return to the easy compatibility of her life with Julian or take a leap into the unknown with Edith?
Politically alert, heartbreakingly raw, and dryly funny, Exciting Times is thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love. In stylish, uncluttered prose, Naoise Dolan dissects the personal and financial transactions that make up a life--and announces herself as a singular new voice.
All books added
279 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781474613446
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W&N
Publication date: 16 April 2020
fiction
contemporary
lgbtqia+
literary
romance
funny
reflective
medium-paced
fiction
contemporary
lgbtqia+
literary
romance
funny
reflective
medium-paced
279 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781474613446
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W&N
Publication date: 16 April 2020
fiction
contemporary
lgbtqia+
literary
romance
funny
reflective
medium-paced
fiction
contemporary
lgbtqia+
literary
romance
funny
reflective
medium-paced
More...