The 100,000 copy Italian bestseller for fans of Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy
''Deliciously enjoyable'' Katherine Heiny
''I adored it'' Naoise Dolan
''Hilarious'' Roddy Doyle
''Thrillingly original'' Monica Ali
Vero 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 unlike
