The Lying Life of Adults

  • The Lying Life of Adults
    By Elena Ferrante

    From the author of My Brilliant Friend, a powerful new novel set in a divided Naples. Soon to be adapted into a NETFLIX original series.

  • The Lying Life of Adults: A Novel
    By Elena Ferrante

    Ferrante once again, with undiminished skill and audacity, creates an emotional force field that has at its heart a young girl on the brink of womanhood.” —The Wall Street Journal

  • The Lying Life of Adults
    By Elena Ferrante

    Adrift, she vacillates between these two cities, falling into one then climbing back to the other. Set in a divided Naples, The Lying Life of Adults is a singular portrayal of the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood.

  • The Lying Life of Adults
    By Elena Ferrante

    Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks.

  • The Lying Life of Adults
    By Elena Ferrante

    "Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks.