Moving between everyday routines, romantic entanglements and the relentless mediation of experience through screens, this novel examines the distance between how we imagine ourselves and how we actually live.

In How to Be a French Girl, Rose Cleary follows a young Irish woman navigating relationships, work, and loneliness. To do so, Cleary's keeps her prose sharp, detached and frequently very funny, remaining focussed on the degrading textures of contemporary life.

Awkward conversations, social media surveillance, advertising slogans and the small indignities of public transport accumulate into a portrait of a woman caught between wanting intimacy and resisting the identities other people impose upon her. 

Edition/Condition: Weatherglass Books, 2023. First edition, paperback. Very good condition, with light superficial shelf wear to the covers. Pages appear clean and the binding sound.