Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Elena Ferrante and mourning

and mourning

Quiet and withdrawn

and creating

Translator: Fiona Bell

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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Elena Ferrante and mourningSet in the late 1960s and the 1970s, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay continues the story of the feisty and rebellious Lila and her lifelong friend, the brilliant and bookish Elena. Lila, after separating from her husband, is living with her young son in a new neighbourhood of Naples and working at a local factory. Elena has left Naples, earned a degree from an elite college, and published a novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of