The New Me

Terrific. So funny. - Zadie Smith   Monstrously depressing but so comic and well observed that I didn't really mind .... It is great. - Dolly Alderton   A dark comedy of female rage. - Catherine Lacey   Brilliant. For fans of Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation. - Pandora Sykes   Funny, shocking, clever, and hugely entertaining. - Roddy Doyle   A definitive work of milennial literature. - Jia Tolentino   The best thing I've read in years. - Emma Jane Unsworth   Vicious ... hilariously spot on. - Guardian   In a windowless office, a woman explains something from her real, nonwork life - about the frustration and indignity of returning her online shopping - to her colleagues. One wears a topknot. Another checks her pedometer. Watching them all is Millie. Thirty-years-old and an eternal temp, she says almost nothing, almost all of the time. But then the possibility of a permanent job arises. Will it bring the new life Millie is envisioning - one involving a gym membership, a book club, and a lot less beer and TV - finally within reach? Or will it reveal just how hollow that vision has become?   Made me laugh and cry enough times to feel completely reborn. - The Paris Review   A definite work of millennial literature. Wretchedly riveting, with the sick, obsessive pleasure of looking under a bandage at a wound. - The New Yorker   So darkly funny and acutely observed that it feels like a documentary. - Andrew McMillan   Anyone who has ever felt like their life is going nowhere - and to make it worse, going nowhere in an achingly slow manner - will recognize themselves. - Nylon