Having already garnered rave reviews from other writers, the best-selling author’s second book promises a clever and entertaining story, and a marriage plot Dolan has seemingly made entirely her own. Publishing house W&N has scooped up the rights for Dolan’s second novel, The Happy Couple, which details the lives of Luke and Celine, a soon-to-be married couple in a “comedy of errors”. 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.Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times has taken to Instagram to announce news of a second book deal. 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? 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. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. The New York Times Book Review * Vogue * TIME * Marie Claire * Elle * O, the Oprah Magazine * The Washington Post * Esquire * Harper's Bazaar * Bustle * PopSugar * Refinery 29 * LitHub * DebutifulĪn intimat e, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyerĪva, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children.
“This debut novel about an Irish expat millennial teaching English and finding romance in Hong Kong is half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy Crazy Rich Asians high living-and guaranteed to please.” - Vogue
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