Go Lightly

<p><strong>Brydie Lee-Kennedy's writing is sharp and funny and humane. A passionate chronicler of the ridiculous--in people in society in sex--Brydie skewers everyone equally but always with empathy warmth and wit. --Monica Heisey author of <em>Really Good Actually</em></strong></p><p><strong>For readers of Dolly Alderton and Candice Carty-Williams a spiky bisexual love story that introduces the unforgettable Ada--a free-spirited Holly Golightly for the age of DMs who follows the whimsies of her heart wherever they lead.</strong></p><p>Ada is a seeker a perpetually moving ball of excess. A twenty-six-year-old Australian living in London she ekes out a living as a cabaret performer and part-time temp. Yet Ada can't imagine wanting to be any other age or any other place. Every night is an opportunity to be thrilled and every morning a chance to recount her escapades to friends.</p><p>So when Ada falls for Sadie and Stuart at the same time she sees no reason not to pursue them both. But as the responsibilities of adult life begin to encroach--bills family more bills--and Sadie and Stuart find out about one another the people around Ada increasingly insist it's time for her to settle down. Can she resist the inevitable?</p><p>Effortlessly hilarious and painfully relatable <em>Go Lightly</em> is a love letter to girls who are the life of the party; girls who say yes without fear. In smartly observed and endlessly warm prose Brydie Lee-Kennedy contemplates the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love and friendship introducing an utterly flawed yet charming character who revels in her youth and sexuality while reckoning with a serious case of main character syndrome.</p>