Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan, June 2, 2020, Ecco
Genre: contemporary fiction, romance
Setting: Hong Kong
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 (publisher)
Book beginning:
My banker friend Julian first took me for lunch in July, the month I arrived in Hong Kong. I'd forgotten which exit of the station we were meeting at, but he called saying he saw me outside Kee Wah Bakery and to wait there. It was humid. Briefcase-bearers clopped out of turnstiles like breeding jennets. The Tannoy blared out first Cantonese, then Mandarin, and finally a British woman saying please mind the gap.
Page 56:
You were ironical with him, also with yourself. It was wild.
Would you read on?
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