Stories Where Ordinary Lives Shift Under Pressure
Adrian Carrington is a Polish-born fiction writer whose work explores desire, power, and the hidden mechanics of control beneath modern relationships. His writing is shaped by observation, research, and lived awareness, focusing on ordinary lives under pressure — moments when choices narrow, loyalty is tested, and consequences emerge slowly rather than suddenly.
His debut novel Baltic Girls is set between Paris and the Netherlands and examines how vulnerability, ambition, and silence intersect across intertwined lives. Carrington’s fiction avoids easy moral conclusions, favoring observation over judgment and complexity over certainty.
Baltic Girls follows the lives of four young women from Eastern Europe whose paths diverge across Paris and the Netherlands. Their stories intersect through intimacy, ambition, and silence-each shaped by different choices, pressures, and limits.
One works in the margins of the sex industry. Others attempt to build ordinary lives away from it. When one woman and her mother are drawn into danger in Paris, the fragile balance between distance and responsibility collapses. What follows is not a rescue story in the traditional sense, but an examination of how loyalty is tested when freedom proves conditional.
Rather than offering easy moral conclusions, Baltic Girls explores how control often operates subtly -through dependence, promises, fear, and the narrowing of options. The novel focuses on how ordinary lives shift under pressure: sometimes suddenly, sometimes quietly.
Baltic Girls is a debut work of fiction that avoids sensationalism, choosing restraint and psychological realism over shock-inviting the reader to observe rather than judge.