"Sometimes I think all anyone wants is to know one place better than anywhere else, to be part of the texture of one location, to be of somewhere, not just in it." A young woman relocates to the Netherlands with her partner. Living and working in a foreign country, she begins to chart the developments of her new life: exchanges with the people she meets, days spent alone freelancing in her apartment, her confrontation with boredom and unease. In her newfound isolation, she develops an unusual friendship with Nadine, a woman she neither likes nor can keep away from. As her feelings of dislocation grow, larger anxieties about her purpose - or lack of it - begin to encroach. And underneath it all, a burgeoning frustration bubbles.
Intimate, incisive and brilliantly observed,
Temper explores loneliness, self-worth and disconnection with head-nodding accuracy.
