![]() ![]() ![]() She pays no rent, taking on a few domestic tasks unasked, while he picks up the tab for this and that, seemingly unaware of her sensitivity to the tilting power balance in their relationship if it can be called that. They have little or nothing in common – Ava is from working-class Dublin with socialist tendencies, Julian is an Eton-educated banker – but eventually Ava moves into his spare room, then into his bedroom. She’s living in a scuzzy Airbnb with two women she neither knows nor particularly likes, working as a TEFL teacher and discouraging attempts by her colleagues to get to know her. ![]() ![]() People who’d gone to Oxford would tell you so even when it wasn’t the questionĪva has been in Hong Kong for a few weeks before she meets Julian in a bar. If Nolan’s novel is anything to go by they’re in for some treats. Sadly, that won’t be on the cards this year but I hope the shadow judges will enjoy their stint. I have very fond memories of a particularly enjoyable event at the Groucho where I met bloggers I’d known virtually for years. Nolan’s debut is one of the five titles shortlisted for the Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year award which I helped shadow judge two years ago. I’d been looking forward to reading Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times for a while when I was offered a review copy. ![]()
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