Luise and Flo decide it’s finally time to grow up. They look for a flat, move in together, buy a double bed and dance around the new rooms to German jazz. But not much later they find themselves standing side by side in the hall like two kids left behind at a motorway service station. Luise feels like they’re only playing at adulthood. There’s something false about this life, as if someone had suddenly transformed everything – changed the rules from the age of thirty. A quarter-life crisis. Is it OK to simply ignore the myriad opportunities in life and leave them standing outside the front door like uninvited guests? How can we trust love if we don’t even trust ourselves? How did time pass us by so quickly? And what do we do with the next two thirds of our lives?
Touching and funny, serious and clever, Sarah Kuttner’s book deals with the longing and the fear tangled up with leading proper, grown-up lives of our own.
