![]() ![]() ![]() Periodically she touched her Celine trapeze bag. He’d said everything very slowly that night, so I’d assumed he was drunk – but he still did it sober, so I gathered he was rich. The staccato style and deadpan, deadly sentences were amusing at first, especially when they make fun of rich people. But I thought I would start there nevertheless, mostly because it was set in Hong Kong and I’ve always been keen on reading about different geographical locations and the culture shock that expats might experience.Īt first all went well. She had been praised as the ‘next Sally Rooney’, which was not the happiest of comparisons for me, since I wasn’t bowled over by Rooney. When I saw the shortlisted titles for the Times/Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award, I have to admit that Exciting Times by Irish writer Naoise Dolan was the only one I had heard of. ![]()
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