EAN: 9780349017679

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The prize-winning 100 000-copy Italian bestseller *A 2023 book of the year for the Financial Times the Irish Times the New European Marie Claire and Largehearted Boy*'Deliciously enjoyable' Katherine Heiny'I adored it' Naoise Dolan'Wild funny and disturbing' Roddy Doyle'Thrillingly original' Monica Ali'It would be simply impossible for a book this good to go unnoticed' Big Issue _________________________________A delightfully funny Italian novel about sex love family - and how a writer transforms her life into artVero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention. As she becomes an adult Vero's need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre and comical situations: she tries (and fails) to run away to Paris at the age of fifteen she moves into an unwitting older boyfriend's house after they have been together for less than a week and she sets up a fraudulent (and wildly successful) street clothing stall to raise funds to go to Mexico. Most of all she falls in love - repeatedly dramatically and often with the most unlikely and inappropriate of candidates.As she continues to plot escapades and her mother's relentless tracking methods and guilt-tripping mastery thwart her at every turn it is no wonder that Vero becomes a writer - and a liar - inventing stories in a bid for her own sanity.Narrated in a voice as wryly ironic as it is warm and affectionate Lost on Me seductively explores the slippery relationship between deceitfulness and creativity (beginning with Vero's first artistic achievement: a painting she steals from a school classmate and successfully claims as her own). Deceptively simple its tenderness offset by moments of cool brutality Lost on Me is a masterwork of human observation.

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