![]() ![]() ![]() SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD Is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship. Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, ![]() But however amusing Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange-and then painful-intimacy. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and handsome husband, Nick. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYįrances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin.sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship.”. ![]()
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