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Category: Fiction
This is a vivid and irresistible coming-of-age story for the Lena Dunham generation, set in New York and personally recommended to Penguin by bestselling author Nick Hornby (Fever Pitch, About a Boy). New York City, six months after 9/11: everything has changed and nothing has. Hailey graduated college
This is a vivid and irresistible coming-of-age story for the Lena Dunham generation, set in New York and personally recommended to Penguin by bestselling author Nick Hornby (Fever Pitch, About a Boy). New York City, six months after 9/11: everything has changed and nothing has. Hailey graduated college months ago but she's still living in her family's Fifth Avenue penthouse, spending her nights falling in and out of bars across Upper East Side Manhattan - and the thrill is starting to wear off. It isn't easy being young, rich and beautiful. Overnight, it seems like everyone suddenly has their lives completely sorted. Katie has a great job at Morgan Stanley, Michael Brenner is training to be a human rights lawyer and trust-fund kid Randy is just content to carry on having fun. Hailey is lost somewhere in the middle, torn between chasing down the next wild party and admitting that it might be time to grow up. She craves something more meaningful - but what? Perhaps Brenner holds the answer: gorgeous, charismatic and aloof, Hailey is convinced he is the missing piece in her puzzle. But when she meets Adrian, a man so totally different from her usual privileged crowd, she begins to realise she's been looking for happiness in all the wrong places...These Days Are Ours is brimming with the feverish chaos of youth. It perfectly captures that exhilarating time in your twenties when it's impossible to know where you are going in life.
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