Eliete is forty-something, married to Jorge for twenty years, and has an average career as an estate agent. She decides to join Tinder and embarks on liaisons with various men around suburban Lisbon, but her marriage remains unaffected. Her grandmother is diagnosed with dementia and moves in with them, revealing scandalous personal memories and threatening to reveal explosive family secrets.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 06 June 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Eliete, a forty-something woman, has been married to Jorge for twenty years and has an average career as an estate agent. She has reached a breaking point and is stuck in a dead-end job and marriage. She decides to join Tinder and embarks on liaisons with various men around suburban Lisbon, hoping to ignite her marriage. However, her grandmother's diagnosis of dementia and her unguarded outbursts threaten to reveal explosive, long-buried family secrets, turning her seemingly normal life upside down.

Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award

Eliete

Eliete is forty-something and has been married to Jorge for twenty years. She has an average career as an estate agent and leads a completely normal life. However, she has reached a breaking point and is stuck in a dead-end job and marriage. She decides to join Tinder and embarks on liaisons with various men around suburban Lisbon, hoping to ignite her marriage. However, her grandmother's diagnosis of dementia and her unguarded outbursts threaten to reveal explosive, long-buried family secrets, turning her seemingly normal life upside down.

Unlikely Romance

It is the summer of 2016, and Jorge has become hooked on Pokémon Go!, football on the telly, and Brexit. He remains completely oblivious to his wife's new exploits. Eliete's grandmother, who has been diagnosed with dementia, moves in with them, and her unguarded outbursts threaten to reveal explosive, long-buried family secrets. These secrets turn Eliete's perception of herself upside down, as her seemingly normal life collapses around her.

Family Secrets

Eliete's grandmother's diagnosis of dementia resurrects some scandalous personal memories and threatens to reveal explosive, long-buried family secrets. These secrets turn Eliete's perception of herself upside down, as her seemingly normal life collapses around her. Eliete's grandmother's unguarded outbursts threaten to reveal explosive, long-buried family secrets, turning her seemingly normal life upside down.

Conclusion

Eliete's decision to join Tinder and embark on liaisons with various men around suburban Lisbon ignites her marriage with the spark it so desperately needs. However, her grandmother's diagnosis of dementia and her unguarded outbursts threaten to reveal explosive, long-buried family secrets, turning her seemingly normal life upside down. Eliete's perception of herself is turned upside down, and she is forced to confront the truth about her family and herself.

Weight: 206g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529418811