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Unfortunately I am unable to share the enthusiasm of a vast majority of the readers of the second of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels. Although the complicated, on-again, off-again relationship of friends Lila and Elena is the much admired centrepiece of the novel I did not ‘believe’ in the friendship and frankly became bored with the brooding, betrayal and feigned forgiveness practised by both women. Because Ferrante’s second novel also features an overly melodramatic tone, a long-winded, unr
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