Edith is curious and enthusiastic, and Ava can no longer maintain her detached, “ironical” approach to life – feelings flower all over the place.
And also coming out: Ava slowly falls for Edith, a Hong Kong lawyer. If in part one, Ava feels held at a frustrating distance – why is she so hard on herself? What does she see in this man? – in part two, we watch her coming into the light. “I enjoyed his money and he enjoyed how easily impressed I was by it.” Despite the chip on her shoulder, she falls in with Julian, an Eton-educated English banker who she enjoys being with because they (supposedly) aren’t that interested in each other: “It wasn’t like normal friendships where I worried if the other person still liked me.” She moves into his swanky apartment, rent-free, and they have sex. Ava is a 21-year-old who leaves Ireland, where she’s convinced everyone hates her, to become a teacher of English as a foreign language in Hong Kong.
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