Frida Slattery As Herself by Ana Kinsella [Paperback]

Frida Slattery as Herself is a sweeping contemporary literary novel about the complicated relationship between aspiring actress Frida Slattery and director John Reddan.

They meet in a Dublin pub in 2005 and quickly become important to each other, both personally and creatively. As their careers develop, their relationship moves through friendship, artistic collaboration, attraction, ambition, success, disappointment, and emotional conflict. Over the next 16 years, their lives take them from Dublin to London, New York, and Los Angeles, while the changing film and cultural landscape tests their connection.

At its heart, the novel explores love, ambition, creativity, power dynamics, artistic collaboration, desire, and growing into adulthood, while asking where the boundaries lie between collaboration and exploitation, and between love and ambition.