An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer

Ava moved to Hong Kong to find happiness, but so far, it isn’t working out. Since she left Dublin, she’s been spending her days teaching English to rich children—she’s been assigned the grammar classes because she lacks warmth—and her nights avoiding petulant roommates in her cramped apartment.

When Ava befriends Julian, a witty British banker, he offers a shortcut into a lavish life her meager salary could never allow. Ignoring her feminist leanings and her better instincts, Ava finds herself moving into Julian’s apartment, letting him buy her clothes, and, eventually, striking up a sexual relationship with him. When Julian’s job takes him back to London, she stays put, unsure where their relationship stands.

Enter Edith. A Hong Kong–born lawyer, striking and ambitious, Edith takes Ava to the theater and leaves her tulips in the hallway. Ava wants to be her—and wants her. Ava has been carefully pretending that Julian is nothing more than an absentee roommate, so when Julian announces that he’s returning to Hong Kong, she faces a fork in the road. Should she return to the easy compatibility of her life with Julian or take a leap into the unknown with Edith?

一部亲密的、充满智慧的处女作，讲述了一个千禧年的爱尔兰侨民与一个男性银行家和一个女性律师之间的三角恋纠葛。

艾娃搬到香港是为了寻找幸福，但到目前为止，这并不奏效。自从她离开都柏林后，她每天都在给富家子弟教英语--她被分配到语法课，因为她缺乏温情，而她的夜晚则在她狭窄的公寓里躲避娇气的室友们。

当艾娃结识了机智的英国银行家朱利安时，他为她提供了一条捷径，让她过上了她微薄的工资所不能及的奢华生活。艾娃无视她的女权主义倾向和她更好的直觉，发现自己搬进了朱利安的公寓，让他给她买衣服，并最终与他发生了性关系。当朱利安的工作让他回到伦敦时，她留在原地，不确定他们的关系如何。

进入伊迪丝。一个在香港出生的律师，引人注目，雄心勃勃，伊迪丝带艾娃去看戏，把郁金香留在走廊里。艾娃想成为她--并且想要她。艾娃一直小心翼翼地假装朱利安只不过是一个缺席的室友，所以当朱利安宣布他将返回香港时，她面临着一个分岔路口。她应该回到与朱利安的轻松兼容的生活中，还是与伊迪丝一起向未知的世界飞跃？