My ingenious girlfriend. Book One. Ferrante E.

“Brilliant friend” is the first novel from the cycle “Neapolitan Quartet”. This is a story about the childhood of two girls from the poor Neapolitan quarter and the beginning of friendship in life long. The first time the girls are dispersed after the elementary school. Family circumstances will force one of them to quit their studies and go to work at the father’s shoe workshop. Throughout life, an invisible rivalry that accompanies real proximity will breed them along different roads. Each of the friends will strive to become the best, each cognizes both success and disappointment, both expect large trials and tragic events. But the strong thread of children's friendship, which sometimes connects people even contrary to their will, will again and again force Lilu and Helen to return to each other.