My Brilliant Friend (TV TIE-IN): The International No. 1 Bestseller - Brossura

"This is a great show with a huge heart. Just be prepared for it to break yours every now and then." Rolling Stone

"As with The Handmaid's Tale, here is a TV adaptation that is truly sympathetic to its female characters and to the novel on which it is based. And which, in a very different way, is as gripping and ravishing, despite the ugliness and brutality it depicts." The Guardian

"Under the endless bright sunlight, My Brilliant Friend feels very dark, full of ominous foreshadowing, yet the two expressive young leads shine through as they subtly weigh up a turbulent universe and their place in it." The Times

"Ferrante's writing creates such vivid pictures in the mind of the reader that arriving at the set feels strangely like visiting an area inside your own imagination..." The Observer

"A unique, transfixing portrayal of female friendship over the course of 50 years." Harper's Bazaar

"My Brilliant Friend brings to life the vibrancy, poverty, grime and outright violence of Naples in the 1950s." The Independent

"A huge part of the books' appeal is the way they chart the changing role of women over the decades. This broader story of Italian life and culture is woven skilfully into a more intimate and complex consideration of the effects of a life-long tie to someone who is both sweetest friend and harshest rival." --The Financial Times

Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008) and the four volumes of the Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, The Story of the Lost Child), published by Europa Editions between 2012 and 2015. She is also the author of a children s picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night, and a work of non-fiction, Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey.