by Elizabeth Mitchell

The mysterious author who goes by Elena Ferrante first discussed her idea for a novel that would become the now-legendary Neapolitan series with her Italian publishers over a lakeside lunch on a sunny summer afternoon in 2009.

"She told us that she wanted to write the story of two friends, middle-aged, and in Naples," recalls Sandra Ozzola Ferri, Ferrante's editor and the co-founder, with husband Sandro Ferri, of the Italian publishing house Edizioni E/O.

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