lost touch with Lila, Lenù breaks a promise she had made and writes about her, publishing a book about their lives called A Friendship. After this, Lila never speaks to her again. In the following years, Lenù's daughters move out of the country, and she becomes a grandmother. Epilogue In 2010, after receiving the news from Rino about his mother's disappearance, Lenù receives a package in the mail. Inside, she finds the dolls, Tina and Nu, that she and Lila played with as children, and that became a symbol of their friendship. Characters Elena Greco (Lenù) - the narrator of the story. After leaving her husband, she moves back to Naples to be with Nino. She leaves him too, and decides to go back to the neighborhood of her childhood. Raffaella Cerulllo (Lila or Lina) - she has a daughter, Tina, that disappears in mysterious circumstances. That, plus the death of her friend Alfonso and the discovery that her son Rino is addicted to heroin, have agreat effect on her. She fights all her life against Michele Solara, a man with camorra connections. She disappears at the age of 60. Enzo Scanno - Lila's husband, leaves town after the disappearance of their daughter Tina. Michele Solara - Lila's enemy, who starts selling heroin in the neighborhood, including to her brother and her son Rino. He is violent and sadistic, causing suffering to Alfonso and attacking Lila. He is killed with his brother. Reception The Novel was very well received by the critics, with The Guardian calling it "a frighteningly insightful finale". Elissa Schappel, writing for Vanity Fair, reviewed the last book of the Quartet as "This is Ferrante at the height of her brilliance." Judith Shulevitz in The Atlantic, praised particularly how the books cicle back to its start, to Lila and Lenu's childhood games, in the final installment. Maureen Corregan has also praised the ending of the novels, calling it "Perfect Devastation". Roger Cohen wrote for the New York Review of Books: "The interacting qualities of the two women are central to the quartet, which is at once introspective and sweeping, personal and political, covering the more than six decades of the two women’s lives and the way those lives intersect with Italy’s upheavals, from the revolutionary violence of the leftist Red Brigades to radical feminism." Darrin Franich has called the novels the series of the decade, saying: "The