Stir-Fry

At seventeen, Maria leaves rural Ireland for university in Dublin, expecting the freedoms and uncertainties of student life. The accommodation she finds brings an education she had not anticipated: her new flatmates are a lesbian couple. Living with them unsettles assumptions Maria has barely had reason to examine, drawing her into questions about desire, friendship, and her own identity. As the relationships within the household become more complicated, she must work out what she wants without the certainty she once took for granted. Set around the end of the 1980s, this coming-of-age novel follows a young woman discovering that leaving home can change far more than her address.