Firstly, I would say ignore the comparisons with Ferrante's Neapolitan novels that I've seen, this is a more conventional coming-of-age, first love romance. Told in two timelines, the present is contrasted with the recent past as two ex-lovers come to terms with their relationship, their decisions, their life choices. This is sweet and poignant reading, and the background of a group of students at university in Naples gives it life. Love, jealousy, misunderstandings, the way people are bound by their pasts however much they might want to move forward are all here: bittersweet switch-off reading.