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