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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: The Millions * LitHub * Electric Literature An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apartMeet Celine and Luke. For all intents and purposes, the happy couple.Luke (a serial cheater) and Celine (more inter-ested in piano than domestic life) plan to marry in a year.Archie (the best man) should be moving on f...

A brilliant contemporary novel' Colm Tóibín 'I am fully in awe of Dolan's talent' Douglas Stuart'I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed it' Marian Keyes'Dazzling. Not a word is out of place' Katherine HeinyMeet Celine and Luke. To all intents and purposes, the happy couple.But Celine's more interested in playing the piano, and Luke's a serial cheater.And as their big day approaches, the complicated lives of the wedding party begin to unravel. A ...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER"Daring . . . a brilliant contemporary novel."--Colm Tóibín An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apartMeet Celine and Luke. For all intents and purposes, the happy couple.Luke (a serial cheater) and Celine (more inter-ested in piano than domestic life) plan to marry in a year.Archie (the best man) should be moving on from his love for Luke ...

«Naoise Dolan führt uns mit viel Humor durch die Welt moderner Beziehungen und die damit verbundenen Absurditäten von Schamgefühlen. Es ist für mich jetzt schon das beste Buch des Jahres.» Anika Decker Eine Gruppe von Freunden in ihren späten Zwanzigern, die einiges verbindet: Alle sind queer, alle sind mehr oder weniger irisch und leben zwischen Dublin und London. Celine und Luke verloben sich, ein Jahr später soll die Hochzeit stattfin...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: The Millions * LitHub * Electric Literature An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apartMeet Celine and Luke. For all intents and purposes, the happy couple.Luke (a serial cheater) and Celine (more inter-ested in piano than domestic life) plan to marry in a year.Archie (the best man) should be moving on f...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: The Millions * LitHub * Electric Literature An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apartMeet Celine and Luke. For all intents and purposes, the happy couple.Luke (a serial cheater) and Celine (more inter­ested in piano than domestic life) plan to marry in a year.Archie (the best man) should be moving on f...

An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apart.

Hugh and Grace are two young professionals with pretty teeth and a house in south Dublin. They are in mutual unrequited love with each other. Hugh is in love with the surprisingly vulnerable reality of Grace, but she is known to herself and everyone she knows as a girl-who-has-it-all. Grace is in love with the dashingly marriageable idea of Hugh, but has yet to engage with the actually-very-neurotic-sometimes-even-Catholic reality of him. Watc...

Everyone has people they're stupid about.'Naoise Dolan, author of the runaway sensation Exciting Times, returns with a novel about four characters, linked by the wedding they are all set to attend. Will it be the happiest day of their lives? The beginning of the lives they have always imagined? Or the end of them?

Ava ist 22 und hat keine Ahnung, was sie mit ihrem Leben anstellen soll. Erst mal weg aus Irland und als Englischlehrerin nach Hongkong. Dort trifft sie Julian, einen Banker, der gern Geld ausgibt. Plötzlich wohnt sie in seinem Gästezimmer, trinkt Clos Vougeot, spricht über Aktienkurse, hat Sex. Meist vermeidet sie die Frage, ob es sie vielleicht zu einer schlechten Feministin macht, dass er alles für sie zahlt, sogar als er für einige Zeit ve...

Ava ist 22 und hat keine Ahnung, was sie mit ihrem Leben anstellen soll. Doch dann trifft sie Julian. Einen Banker. Einen Banker, der gerne Geld für sie ausgibt. Und plötzlich findet sie sich im Gästezimmer seiner Wohnung wieder und trinkt Clos Vougeot, spricht über schwankende Kurse und hat Sex. Ihre Einkommensunterschiede sind groß, und sie bewahren die selbsternannte Linke und Feministin Ava vor unangenehmen Fragen. Oder macht es sie vielle...

Eine beißend komische, zeitgenössische Beziehungsgeschichte, zärtlich und einfühlsam erzählt. «Aufregende Zeiten» spielt im Hongkong der Gegenwart und erzählt die Geschichte einer Dreiecksbeziehung zwischen zwei jungen Frauen und einem Mann. Ava ist 22 und hat keine Ahnung, was sie mit ihrem Leben anstellen soll. Doch dann trifft sie Julian. Einen Banker. Einen Banker, der gerne Geld für sie ausgibt. Und plötzlich findet sie sich im Gästezi...

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 A RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM: The New York Times Book Review * Vogue * TIME * Marie Claire * Elle * O, the Oprah Magazine * Esquire * Harper's Bazaar * Bustle * PopSugar * Refinery 29 * LitHub * DebutifulAn intimate, bracingly intelligent de...

When you leave Ireland aged 22 to spend your parents' money, it's called a gap year, When Ava leaves Ireland aged 22 to make her own money, she's not sure what to call it, but it involves:- a badly-paid job in Hong Kong, teaching English grammar to rich children, - Julian, who likes to spend money on Ava and lets her move into his guest room, - Edith, who Ava meets while Julian is out of town and actually listens to her when she talks, - money...

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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 lawyer. Refreshingly enthusiastic and unapologetically earnest, Edith takes Ava to the theatre when Julian leaves Hong Kong fo...

Droll, shrewd and unafraid - a winning debut' Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall 'Fiercely intelligent, brutally funny' Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall'Witty, compelling and with a razor-sharp social commentary. I guzzled it' Pandora Sykes 'Read if you like Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth, Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath' Sunday Times 'More than lives up to the hype ... Likely to fill the Sally-Rooney-sh...