Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer born in Dublin. She studied at Trinity College, followed by a master's in Victorian literature at Oxford. She writes fiction, essays, criticism and features for publications including the London Review of Books, the Guardian and Vogue. Naoise's debut novel Exciting Times was published by W&N in the UK and by Ecco in the US in 2020, and became a Sunday Times bestseller, widely translated and optioned for TV. She has been shortlisted and longlisted for several prizes, including the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.
I had real fun with EXCITING TIMES. It is a very funny, spiky,
Marxist, feminist comedy and it's really mean.
*Zadie Smith*
Droll, shrewd and unafraid - a winning debut
*Hilary Mantel, author of WOLF HALL*
Fiercely intelligent, brutally funny and written with such heart,
EXCITING TIMES announces an impressive new voice in literature.
Witty, compelling and with a razor-sharp social commentary. I
guzzled it.
*Pandora Sykes*
A modern love story ... astute, sardonic and highly emotionally
aware ... Heralding for sure a new star in Irish writing
*Irish Times*
EXCITING TIMES more than lives up to the hype ... Likely to fill
the Sally-Rooney-shaped hole in many readers' lives.
*Irish Times*
Dazzling ... So brilliantly executed ... Coming-of-age love is told
in technicolour ... Banging lines follow banging lines. Your
underlining pen destroys the pages ... With EXCITING TIMES comes a
rare and indeed exciting talent, a cacophony of our times, a treat
for the socially distanced
*Irish Independent*
Lucky us ... EXCITING TIMES will brighten lockdown ... Very funny
... Extremely sharp ... Insightful and raw
*Observer*
A funny, smart, contemporary love story. Perfect for fans of Sally
Rooney and Emma Jane Unsworth
*Sunday Times Style*
The funniest writer you will read this year... Every page crackles
... Very funny ... Ultimately a very moving story, one that
occupies a small sliver of time and space, but manages a lasting
emotional tinnitus ... Naoise Dolan is not the new anyone. She's
entirely herself, and that's plenty
*Sunday Life, Irish Independent*
A sharp, funny account of a contemporary relationship, told
tenderly and with biting, bright insight.
Hands down one of the most anticipated debuts of the year ... A
piercingly provocative look at modern love and power games.
*BookRiot*
A funny, smart and sensitive exploration of love, privilege and
bisexuality that had me gripped from the first page. Dolan's
sentences are like a splash of cold water to the face
Devastatingly perceptive and articulate. It's a joy to encounter a
book so compulsively readable and painfully funny while
simultaneously deeply insightful on love, on sexuality, on social
class, on their links as terribly inextricable in the 21st century
as they ever were. Dolan is a major talent and this is a formidable
debut
This is icily brilliant stuff. A poised and surgical examination of
class, sex, language and self-making, with some flat-out enviable
jokes
Read if you like ANIMALS by Emma Jane Unsworth, TRICK MIRROR by Jia
Tolentino, THE BELL JAR by Sylvia Plath
*Sunday Times Style*
Brilliantly funny, surgically sharp, furiously political. Expect to
hear lots about EXCITING TIMES next year
Forensically brilliant - an elegant and painfully funny portrait of
greed and hunger, love and indifference
So wry, witty and insightful
Dolan's debut lives up to the hype, a hypnotic tale
*The i newspaper*
We're really, um, excited about this sharp, smart debut
*Red magazine*
A modern love story that will live with you long after you've
finished it
*Molly Aitken author of THE ISLAND CHILD*
Following the love triangle between three expats living in Hong
Kong, EXCITING TIMES dissects the financial and personal
transactions that make up life
*Platinum magazine*
This debut from Dolan explores a love affair between an English
teacher and a banker in Hong Kong and the lawyer who blows the
whole thing sky-high. Definitely one to watch.
*Stylist, 'Best new books for 2020'*
Finance, sex, cynicism and unspoken feelings are swirled together
in a can labelled 'Hong Kong' in this modern love triangle
*Irish Independent*
Among the most hotly tipped debut authors for 2020
*The Bookseller*
EXCITING TIMES is more caustic and cynical than Rooney's writing,
if just as clever ... All the fretting over love and class could be
compared to Austen or Wharton, but her light treatment of
bisexuality and polyamory is utterly 2020
*Guardian*
Meet the new Sally Rooney... That might sound like hyperbole but
this tale brings fresh and on-point insights into modern love
that'll make it a hit with lovers of NORMAL PEOPLE
*Stylist*
2020 is set to be a huge year for Naoise Dolan
*Irish Examiner*
Echoes of Sally Rooney's CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS resound in this
exacting debut novel
*Oprah magazine*
Ice cool, self aware and very funny. Shades of Lorrie Moore and THE
BELL JAR.
*Graham Norton*
Dry, sharp, meticulously observed ... A frankly sensational book
that's flawlessly executed
*Pandora Sykes on The High Low*
Half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy CRAZY RICH ASIANS high
living - and guaranteed to please
*Vogue, 'Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2020'*
An effervescent snapshot of millennial, attachment-avoidant
dating
*Daily Mail*
Constant, breezy fun
*Telegraph*
A love story about three expats in Hong Kong - teacher Ava, banker
Julian, and the alluring Edith - and explores the nuances and
uncertainties of modern love
*Cosmopolitan, 'Best Books of 2020'*
EXCITING TIMES is a joy from start to finish, and the perfect balm
for these times-fresh, funny, sharp. Everyone should read it right
now. A literary and hilarious tour de force.
*Katherine Heiny, author of Standard Deviation*
From the opening page, Ava's voice is electrifying and frequently
very funny; Naoise Dolan's debut novel really is as good as
everyone says it is.
*Irish Times*
I wouldn't be surprised if it emerges as the book of the summer...
A rich, sharply witty story made out of the frictions and
complexities of young love ... Kept me rapt until the final
page
*The Times*
I've been pushing Exciting Times on everyone I know: it is the
perfect blend of caustically clever and emotionally engaging. Some
of Dolan's pithy observations of her characters are the best I've
read since Edward St Aubyn
*Observer*
I tore through EXCITING TIMES, a sharp, smart, witty modern love
story. I loved it
*David Nicholls*
THIS BOOK!!!! It's as BRILLIANT as everyone says!!!! I DEVOURED it
and it delighted me with its ideas and made me LAUGH so much and
gave me hope. Naoise Dolan is thrillingly honest about class
iniquity, sexism, poverty, the after-effects of colonialism - it's
so REFRESHING. I kept seizing on paragraphs and shouting, THIS!!
THIS IS THE THING I WAS THINKING BUT COULDN'T ARTICULATE!!!
*Marian Keyes*
A wonderfully sharp, comic writer, adept at making wisecracks in
the caustic, knock-em-off, knock-em-down tradition of Dorothy
Parker, Joan Rivers and Nora Ephron ... [Ava] is Bridget Jones's
sour sister, or Bridget Jones marinaded in vinegar... I found
myself purring with pleasure. I loved EXCITING TIMES's snap and its
bite ... This is comic writing at the highest level, created with
such apparent ease that it seems to dance across the page ... At
its best, EXCITING TIMES reminds me of Martin Amis's first novel,
The Rachel Papers. In its icy take on consumerism it's also
reminiscent of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho. Like both those
novels it seems to be brilliantly in tune with its times.
*Daily Mail*
A Book of the Year in The Sunday Times and a Best Book of the
Summer in The i newspaper.
A wily, caustic story about young love ... Sentence-by-sentence,
EXCITING TIMES is both a joy and a triumph... I delighted in the
brilliance of Dolan's deadpan style.
*The i newspaper*
The most talked about novel of the summer
*The Sunday Times Style*
A dazzling debut... Dolan's writing is precise, acerbic and
enviably good, and her characters are perfectly drawn
*Evening Standard*
Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-breaking... Ava is a most
interesting literary heroine ... I rarely find myself rooting for a
character as much as I did for her ... A whip-smart, funny and
poignant story of modern love, accessible to all. It should be on
everyone's 2020 must read list
*Irish Sunday Independent*
A fresh and funny debut about love and self-knowledge ... affecting
and powerful
*Guardian*
What sets Dolan apart is her humour. EXCITING TIMES is riddled with
snappy one liners and witty interplay. A fantastic first novel
*Metro*
Dolan is a writer entirely in command of her craft ... The writing
fairly sizzles on the page... EXCITING TIMES is an acerbic tale of
sex and love, set in the social media age
*The Herald Scotland*
Incredibly readable
*Belfast Telegraph*
With Naoise Dolan on the literary scene, there are EXCITING TIMES
ahead
*i-D*
The Irish debut novel everyone is talking about
*The Gloss*
I savoured every shrewd line
*Dazed*
A sharp, witty and ultimately moving debut ... Dolan brings a fresh
insight into modern love that will inevitably make this a hit among
those who love Normal People
*Independent*
A wry, stylish debut ... In this witty satire of the haves and have
nots, Dolan explores tender, insightful truths about the vagaries
of modern love
*Esquire*
Snappy, sharp and smart [with] painfully funny insight that has
drawn justifiable comparisons to Sally Rooney
*Sunday Express*
Naoise Dolan's debut is whipsmart, sharp and full of delightfully
perceptive observations
*Daily Express*
A bracing book that cuts through the burdens and excesses of the
typical love story to deliver the reader to that rare, real thing:
raw thought. Naoise Dolan has an uncanny talent for interiority,
and her cool prose accommodates equally well a quickening heart and
a mind on fire
*Joshua Ferris*
A sharp, witty debut.
*Stylist*
We loved Dolan's evisceration of Insta culture - SAVAGE.
*Cosmopolitan*
Withering, stylish prose that is at times deceptively simple but
always flush with caustic wit, I savoured every shrewd line.
*Dazed*
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