LYING LIFE OF ADULTS

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.




TO BE PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN OVER 40 COUNTRIES: AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER IN THE MAKING!



THE ITALIAN EDITION OF THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS (November 2019) HAS SOLD OVER 300,000 COPIES, REMAINING STEADY AT THE TOP END OF NATIONAL BESTSELLER LISTS



BBC Radio 4 Book At Bedtime adaptation to be broadcast over 2 weeks at time of publication.