Exciting times dolan6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() A Hong Kong–born lawyer, striking and ambitious, Edith takes Ava to the theater and leaves her tulips in the hallway. When Julian’s job takes him back to London, she stays put, unsure where their relationship stands.Įnter Edith. Ignoring her feminist leanings and her better instincts, Ava finds herself moving into Julian’s apartment, letting him buy her clothes, and, eventually, striking up a sexual relationship with him. ![]() When Ava befriends Julian, a witty British banker, he offers a shortcut into a lavish life her meager salary could never allow. Since she left Dublin, she’s been spending her days teaching English to rich children-she’s been assigned the grammar classes because she lacks warmth-and her nights avoiding petulant roommates in her cramped apartment. 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 lawyerĪva moved to Hong Kong to find happiness, but so far, it isn’t working out. ![]()
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