![]() ![]() In this tiny volume, which reads like a fast-paced thriller, Dolan’s elegant, arresting first-person narrative explores identity, introversion, sexuality, gender pay gap, capitalism, communism, and an obsession to send a perfect apology among other themes.Īva and Julian’s romance is rather unconventional. ![]() In Exciting Times, which reads like a fast-paced thriller, Dolan’s elegant, arresting first-person narrative explores identity, introversion, sexuality, gender pay gap, capitalism, communism, and an obsession to send a perfect apology among other themes. Ava says, “I wasn’t good at most things, but I was good at men, and Julian was the richest man I’d ever been good at.” ![]() The title of the book is not only intriguing but justifiable, as Ava, a twenty-two-year-old Dublin native, has newly moved to Hong Kong as a TEFL teacher, and begins dating an Oxford graduate and banker Julian, who is in his late twenties. “The next Sally Rooney”, some have had gone on to observe. ![]() Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021, 29-year-old Naoise Dolan’s debut novel Exciting Times (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd 2020) has attracted comparison with the works of Sally Rooney. ![]()
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