The Story of a New Name () is a 2012 novel written by Italian author Elena Ferrante. It is the second volume in her four-book series known as the Neapolitan Novels, being preceeded by My Brilliant Friend, and suceeded by Those who leave and those who stay and The story of the lost child. It was translated to English by Ann Goldstein in 2013. It was adapted by HBO into the second season of TV show My Brilliant Friend. Plot The novel starts with the return of Lila and Stefano from their honeymoon in the Amalfi coast. Lila has a bruised face, and tells Lenù that she was beaten and sexually assaulted when she tried to resist Stefano in their vacation. To their horror, they realize that most of the neighborhood respects Stefano more after this, having considered Lila too unruly for a young girl. Lila starts to work in the shoe shop her family is opening with the Solara brothers. She becomes pregnant, but has a miscarriage. Both Lila and Stefano's family pressure her into becoming pregnant again, blaming Lila's independence for the miscarriage. A doctor recommends that she spends a season at sea to increase her fertility, and Lila, desperate to not be alone with her mother and sister-in-law, talks Elena into coming with her. Elena, who is secretly in love with Nino Sarratore, agrees on the condition that they go to the island of Ischia, knowing Nino will be there. Lila, Lenù, Nino, Lila's pregnant sister in law Pinuccia and Nino's friend Bruno Soccavo spend the days discussing about literature and politics. Pinuccia develops a crush on Bruno, while Nino and Lila fall in love and begin an affair. When they spend the night together, Lenù, depressed and alone at the beach, gives in to the advances of Donato Sarratore, Nino's father, who harrassed a few years before, and with whom she has sex. As the vacation comes to an end, Lenù, feeling rejected, focuses on her studies and meets less and less with Lila and Nino. When she is taking the Matura, the national exam to finish high school in Italy, one of the examiners tells her about the Scuola Normale di Pisa, one of the few places where she could continue her education without any fees, and receiving a scholarship. Lenù decides to take an exam for the university, and wins a place there. Just