She’s a young Irish woman, after all, and she’d written a novel about love, self-loathing, and emotional repression.
The comparison was mentioned repeatedly in the book’s marketing materials, in reviews, in interviews, and in the 28-year-old’s author biographies. 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.When Naoise Dolan’s debut novel Exciting Times was released last year, she was swiftly earmarked as the “ next Sally Rooney”. Is thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love. Politically alert, heartbreakingly raw, and dryly funny, Should Ava return to the easy compatibility of her life with Julian or take a leap into the unknown with Edith? Ava wants to be her-and wants her.Īnd then Julian writes to tell Ava he is coming back to Hong Kong.
A Hong Kong-born lawyer, striking and ambitious, Edith takes Ava to the theater and leaves her tulips in the hallway. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than I like you a great deal. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. , newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. The New York Times Book Review * Vogue * TIME * Marie Claire * Elle * O, the Oprah Magazine * The Washington Post * Esquire * Harper's Bazaar *īustle * PopSugar * Refinery 29 * LitHub * DebutifulĮ, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer "This debut novel about an Irish expat millennial teaching English and finding romance in Hong Kong is half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy
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