To Rest Our Minds and Bodies by Harriet Armstrong

An unnamed psychology student in her final year of university falls in love with a postgraduate student in computer sciences named Luke, loses her virginity (but not to him), and struggles to understand and connect with the world around her.

Armstrong queries the nature of meaninglessness, mapping both the private disintegration of a young woman's sense of self and the collective pessimism of her generation's sense of the future.