It’s Saturday morning. I’ve been debating for days about cleaning the kitchen floor. However, I have a meeting with a friend at a museum at lunch time and then I plan to go to the gym. First thing, I decide, is a bath for me. Not the floor. I check my email before taking the plunge. Hi Persephone, A debut comic novel that follows a young singer navigating opera student culture between Paris and Amsterdam, written by a poet and author based in the Netherlands who is simultaneously working to recover and preserve her father’s literary estate, is a genuinely layered and unusual authorial identity. The readers for Idle Opportunities are not a mass market audience. They are literary fiction readers with a taste…