JILLIAN PB

From the author of the great (Dolly Alderton), terrific (Zadie Smith) The New Me, comes a subversive, hilarious portrait of two colleagues, each more like the other than they would care to admit. Wretchedly riveting Jia Tolentino, New Yorker Butler is an essential contemporary voice Literary Hub A master of writing about work and its discontents The Millions Megan is only twenty-four but her life feels like a dead end. Working as a gastroenterologists receptionist and resenting the success and happiness of her friends, the only thing that makes her feel better is obsessively critiquing the behaviour of her colleague, Jillian. A grotesquely optimistic thirty-five-year-old single mother, Jillians chirpy positivity obscures her mounting struggles - until her downfall is precipitated by the purchase of a dog . . . Outrageous and amusing ... reads like rubbernecking or a junk-food binge, compelling a horrified fascination and bleak laughter Kirkus The funniest book Ive read in a long time, but also one of the most important ones The Rumpus