What elevates the narrative is the sharpness of Ava’s observations and her complex, wholly convincing interior voice a voice that exhaustively analyses everything she does and says. There are just so many moments in my life where I was perceived as being too blunt Neither Julian nor Edith are aware of each other’s existence for quite some time. Once he departs, Edith arrives on Ava’s scene she’s a smart lawyer from a wealthy Hong Kong family, and they begin a relationship. Set in Hong Kong, it’s the story of Ava, a young Irish woman teaching English, who is certain she is uncertain about many things in her life, including why she has moved in with a British banker, Julian, who is absent in London for part of the novel. Out now in paperback, it was longlisted this week for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her first novel, Exciting Times, was published last year to critical acclaim. Miss one word when transcribing and the architecture of the sense of the sentence tumbles down.ĭubliner Dolan is talking to me from her home in London, where she has been living, off and on, for the past three years. It wasn’t only because the phone connection was a little glitchy it’s mostly because Dolan speaks in beautifully intricate long sentences. I end up going back three times to listen to the recording of my interview with novelist Naoise Dolan.
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