A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick 2021
 
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
 
From the author of My Brilliant Friend, a powerful new novel set in a divided Naples
 
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
 
Soon to be adapted into a NETFLIX original series
 
"Incendiary."
Mail on Sunday
 
"The most intense writing about the experiences and interior life of a girl on the cusp of adulthood that I have ever read."
Financial Times
 
"An astonishing, deeply moving tale."
The Guardian
 
"Modern, urgent, truthful."
The Telegraph
 
Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent.
 
But is she seeing things as they really are?
 
Where must she look to find her true reflection and a life she can claim as her own?
 
Giovanna's search leads her to two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity.
 
Adrift, she vacillates between these two cities, falling into one then climbing back to the other.

This powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by bestselling author Elena Ferrante is a singular portrayal of the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood.