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World Book Club: Naoise Dolan: Exciting Times

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Naoise Dolan

01/01/2022 GMT

Naoise Dolan: Exciting Times

BBC World Service - World Book Club, Naoise Dolan: Exciting Times

Irish writer Naoise Dolan talks about her dazzling novel Exciting Times

Irish writer Naoise Dolan talks about her dazzling novel Exciting Times.

The first of our season of celebrating The Exuberance of Youth in this the centenary year of the BBC, World Book Club talks to Irish writer Naoise Dolan about her dazzling novel Exciting Times. Psychologically astute and dryly funny, Exciting Times is a modern, intelligent dissection of youth, power and privilege set amongst the international circles of contemporary Hong Kong. Clever, young millennial Ava, an Irish graduate teaching English, is having an affair with rich cynical banker Julian. Then she meets Edith. Earnest, attentive and all the things Julian isn’t. A raw, intimate exploration of love and sexuality amongst millennials, Exciting Times charts the often transactional nature of relationships in our complicated modern world.

(Photo courtesy of Naoise Dolan.)

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