LoveReading Says
Well now, this is utterly fabulous, it’s sharp and pointed, amusing and witty, and full of the deeply emotional chaos that comes from travelling through joy into heartache. Lucie starts a new job and with that comes a love affair, consumed and obsessed, her chosen path leads her to a number of realisations about life. Author Madeleine Gray, has the ability to peel back layers of everyday existence and bring them to the fore. From minute detailing through to the chasm of life itself, she pounces, words flowing from the page and sparking into existence. The descriptions of office life had me smirking and wincing. Lucie is so honest and forthright and really very funny, yet my heart aches for her. There is an innocence and hopefulness that nestled into my thoughts, even as I shook my head in disbelief. Chosen as a LoveReading Star Book and Liz Pick of the Month due to the stunning examination of love in its different forms, from family to friendship, romantic and passionate love, and then perhaps most importantly the love of self-worth and respect. So smart and darkly amusing, Green Dot sits as an exclamation mark against life, and comes as highly recommended by our team.
Liz Robinson
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Green Dot Synopsis
Hera is in her mid-twenties, which seems young to everyone except people in their mid-twenties.
Since leaving school, she has been trying to kick and scream into existence a life she cares about, but with little success so far.
Until she meets Arthur.
He works with her, he is older than her, he is also married. But in her soulless office - the large cold room she feels destined to spend her life in - he is a source of much-needed sustenance.
And though Hera has previously dated women, she soon falls headlong into a workplace romance that will quickly consume her life.
Laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving and whip-smart, Green Dot is a story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing and the winding, torturous, often hilarious journey we take in deciding who we are and who we want to be.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781399612760 |
| Publication date: |
1st February 2024 |
| Author: |
Madeleine Gray |
| Publisher: |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson an imprint of Orion Publishing Co |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
384 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Romance / Relationship Stories
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Madeleine Gray Press Reviews
Brilliant. Riveting. Sharp. Funny. Dark. I want to give Green Dot all the adjectives but will content myself with saying it is one of the best books you will read all year -- Elizabeth Day, author of MAGPIE
I wolfed Green Dot down over two nights. An incredibly funny book about a woman having an affair that's a really bad idea. Every sentence sparkles -- Caitlin Moran
If you liked Fleabag you will love Green Dot -- Pandora Sykes
What a treat. It's positively indecent that a book this funny should also be so moving and wise and well-observed. Everything I read after finishing it felt a bit anaemic in comparison. Every sentence is a joy. -- Rebecca Wait, author of I'M SORRY YOU FEEL THAT WAY
As funny as it is bleak, Green Dot is a compulsive read that grapples with the quest for meaning and happiness in our fractured world. Madeleine Gray's luminous debut echoes the canon of literature centred around affairs whilst achieving something completely fresh and asking questions that will stay with readers in the same way her protagonist Hera's voice is sure to do. -- Kate Sawyer, author of THE STRANDING
A gripping read that's smart, funny and highly relatable -- Libby Page, author of THE LIDO
Just brilliant. Hilarious and sexy but so wise about the human heart, too. Witty as Fleabag, psychologically insightful as Sally Rooney - everyone will be talking about Green Dot -- Lucie Whitehouse, author of LAST WITNESS
Madeleine Gray takes a scalpel to millennial malaise, office romance, and infidelity, and the result is a brainy, gutsy, nervy - and hilarious - wonder of a novel -- Meg Howrey, author of THEY'RE GOING TO LOVE YOU
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. Green Dot is a book about love, and how stupid and funny and absolutely beautiful life can be -- Laura McPhee-Browne, author of LITTLE PLUM
Is there anything more deeply cursed than being a woman in your 20s? Novelists have been mining this period of life for years, but few get it as well as Madeleine Gray . . . Staggeringly good and wickedly funny - The Saturday Paper
This book! What a gutting, funny, smart, smart, smart book it is, one that I absolutely inhaled while almost constantly emotionally bracing myself. Madeleine Gray is a hilarious, humane, and highly perceptive writer -- Claire Lombardo, author of THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD
Excruciatingly brilliant. I snorted with laughter and winced in recognition. So painfully, sharply true - this is without a doubt the best book about an affair I've read, and I'm including Graham Greene in that -- Emma Hughes, author of No Such Thing is Perfect
Madeleine Gray's brilliantly sharp Green Dot wrenchingly captures what so many of us yearn for: to be loved in the eyes of another for who we are... a book so hilariously real and devastating, you'll never stop hoping (or reading). -- Jennifer McShane - IMAGE MAGAZINE
One of the most buzzed-about books for 2024 is Green Dot and it's a gulp of a read thanks to Gray's fizzing protagonist, Hera... Hera's longing, hope and pop culture references (everything from The Wire to Rupi Kaur and British pub opening times are used for proper laughs) make it one of the most entertaining reads we've had in a long time. -- Francesca Brown - STYLIST Unmissable Fiction for 2024
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