{"product_id":"green-dot-1","title":"Madeleine Gray: Green Dot [2023] paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2024 MATT RICHELL AWARD FOR NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I wolfed \u003ci\u003eGreen Dot\u003c\/i\u003e down over two nights. An incredibly funny book about a woman having an affair that's a really bad idea. Every sentence sparkles.' -\u003cb\u003eCaitlin Moran, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Be a Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant. Riveting. Sharp. Funny. Dark. I want to give \u003ci\u003eGreen Dot\u003c\/i\u003e all the adjectives but will content myself with saying it is one of the best books you will read all year' - \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Day, host of the \u003ci\u003eHow to Fail \u003c\/i\u003epodcast\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I felt so much joy reading this utterly assured writing. \u003ci\u003eGreen Dot\u003c\/i\u003e is written with such poise, such confidence, I could not look away. I was mesmerised by its sheer brilliance.' -\u003cb\u003e Jessie Tu, author of \u003ci\u003eA Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHera Stephen is clawing through her mid-twenties, working as an underpaid comment moderator in an overly air-conditioned newsroom by day and kicking around Sydney with her two best friends by night. Instead of money or stability, she has so far accrued one ex-girlfriend, several hundred hangovers and a dog-eared novel collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile everyone around her seems to have slipped effortlessly into adulthood, Hera has spent the years since school caught between feeling that she is purposefully rejecting traditional markers of success to forge a life of her own and wondering if she's actually just being left behind. Then she meets Arthur, an older, married colleague. Intoxicated by the promise of ordinary happiness he represents, Hera falls headlong into a workplace romance that everyone, including her, knows is doomed to fail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith her daringly specific and intimate voice, Madeleine Gray has created an irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing; about the joys and indignities of coming into adulthood against the pitfalls of the twenty-first century; and about the winding, torturous and often very funny journey we take in deciding who we are and who we want to be. \u003cbr\u003e'I am obsessed with this book. I am obsessed with Hera, with her dad, her friends, her dog. I am obsessed with how funny she is, and how hopeful and dark and tender and bleak the world is through her eyes. \u003ci\u003eGreen Dot \u003c\/i\u003eis a book about love, and how stupid and funny and absolutely beautiful life can be. I would read it forever if I could.'  -\u003cb\u003eLaura McPhee-Browne, author of \u003ci\u003eCherry Beach\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'Laugh-out-loud funny and beautifully, brutally relatable - \u003ci\u003eGreen Dot\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that will stay with me for a very long time.'  -\u003cb\u003eEwa Ramsey, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Morbids\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'Incredibly funny and a bit too real. This debut novel captures the zeitgeist.' -\u003cb\u003eBrigid Delaney, author of \u003ci\u003eReasons Not to Worry \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWellmania\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gray, Madeleine","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":49631157584211,"sku":"XG81761068614","price":3.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/gray-madeleine-green-dot-xg81761068614-59559455326547.jpg?v=1729323850","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/green-dot-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}