Growing up means learning to lie. A long-awaited new novel by one of the most enigmatic contemporary writers, whose works have been translated into more than 40 languages, the author of the famous 'Neapolitan Quartet', 'Days of Solitude', and 'The Unknown Daughter'. Lying is wrong. Adults keep repeating this idea again and again. The main character of 'The Lying Adult Life,' Giovanna, tries to uncover details about her family's past, specifically to understand the role her aunt Vittoria played in it. Giovanna's father, whom the young heroine adores, always said that Vittoria is the embodiment of evil and human deformity. Slowly unraveling this story, Giovanna realizes that adult life is a carefully and delicately woven web of lies. Here, everyone hides something from each other and shamelessly lies to one another. And she has to step into this adult world? Elena Ferrante, one of the most mysterious and distinguished contemporary writers, once again psychologically subtly and stylistically impeccably shows that growing up is not only about first love, first kiss, first problems, and first complexes: it is also a fundamental choice, a choice between lies and truth. Sometimes it seems that being deceitful means being an adult, and adhering to truth and sincerity means remaining a child. Unraveling the tangle of secrets in her own family, Giovanna tries to find an answer to a fundamental question: what kind of adult does she want to be herself.