Elena Ferrante - The Neapolitan Novels: The Story of a Lost Child (Part 2)

By Elena Ferrante, translated by Anne Goldstein. Accepting the fact that her lover Nino will not leave his wife, Lena decides to move back to Naples with her two children and accept his offer to rent them a flat in the nice part of town. They continue to have an affair and she finds herself pregnant. Lila also finds herself pregnant and this unites their friendship once more. Lila however seems to suffer during her pregnancy - not helped by the chaos caused by the earthquake that hit Naples in 1980. Gradually she seems to lose touch with her world once again. With Monica Dolan and Anastasia Hille. First aired in 2017