《正常人》、《聊天紀錄》作者新書!
一位成功愛爾蘭作家、她的好友,還有她們的戀人。
備受讚譽的愛爾蘭作家莎莉·魯尼以冷靜筆鋒探索階級、愛情、友誼、性、焦慮等課題。
29歲的小說家愛麗絲因成名之累精神崩潰,從都柏林移居海邊小鎮,邂逅倉庫員工菲利斯,並邀請他同去羅馬旅行。她留在都柏林的好友艾琳則剛走出情傷,對兒時舊識賽門產生好感。四人都還年輕、卻感到時不我予。
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.