The final chapter of in Ferrante’s celebrated Neapolitan Quartet, the saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this book, both are adults; life’s great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. As Lila and Elena clash, drift apart, reconcile, and clash again, they reveal new facets of their friendship, which throughout it all, remains the gravitational centre of their lives.
