Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008) and the four volumes of the Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child), published by Europa Editions between 2012 and 2015. She is also the author of a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night, and a work of non-fiction, Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey. Incidental Inventions, her collected Guardian columns, were published in 2019.
"""Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay continues Ferrante's raw exploration of female friendship and ambition, emotional violence and the enduring scars of the second world war."" * The Guardian * ""There is a savage honesty to the work of Elena Ferrante that is both unsettling and comforting at once. Here is an author who has poured every ounce of herself onto the page."" * Irish Times * The older you get, the harder it is to recapture the intoxicating sense of discovery that comes when you first read George Eliot, Nabokov, Tolstoy or Colette. But this year it came again when I read Elena Ferrante’s remarkable Neapolitan novels, chronicling a friendship between two women, Lila and Elena, that lasts for more than six decades. * The New Statesman * ""Tolstoyan in its sweep and ambition.... Novel by novel, Ferrante’s series is building into one of the great achievements of modern literature."" * The Independent * ""Ferrante depicts the pain of uncertainty but also its potential."" * The Times Literary Supplement * ""Nothing you read about Elena Ferrante's work prepares you for the ferocity of it."" * The New York Times *"