![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Politically alert, heartbreakingly raw, and dryly funny, Exciting Times is thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love. Should Ava return to the easy compatibility of her life with Julian or take a leap into the unknown with Edith? Author of Exciting Times, NaoiseDolan, is coming to the bookshop Wed 24/05 to celebrate her forthcoming novel The Happy Couple. 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."Įnter Edith. In Irish author Dolan's debut novel, 22-year-old narrator Ava relocates from Dublin to Hong Kong to teach grammar at a school for English-language learners. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. EXCITING TIMES by Naoise Dolan RELEASE DATE: JA young millennial finds herself in a love triangle with a man and woman. ![]() Her debut novel, Exciting Times, was a Sunday Times bestseller, widely translated, and optioned for television. ![]() 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.Īva, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer born in Dublin. ![]()
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