A Story About the Year I Learned to LeaveBy Elliot Nash
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Length2h 45m
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On New Year's Eve 2017, an eighteen-year-old mathematician falls for a girl named Sophie at a house party in Manchester. Three months later, from seventy-three miles away, she ends it on a Tuesday night phone call. Politely. Honestly. Perfectly.
On April Fools' Day he makes a vow. Three months maximum. He will be the one who leaves. Always.
What follows is a year of four women, four quarters, and four endings — each one costing more than the last. Cara, who he ends it with over cold tea. Jess, who he almost can't let go. And Naomi, who walks in already knowing the rules, and decides to dismantle them anyway.
18 is a novel about the year a boy built a wall around himself and called it a system. About mathematics and heartbreak. About Manchester in all four seasons. And about the question that follows him through every chapter:
What is the story actually about?
