Madeleine Gray

eBook, ePUB

Green Dot (eBook, ePUB)

Shortlisted for the 2025 British Book Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year

Beschreibung

A BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN STYLIST, DAILY MAIL, THE i PAPER, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND RED

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
'ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS YOU WILL READ ALL YEAR' ELIZABETH DAY
'BRILLIANT. WHAT A WRITER' NIGELLA LAWSON
'INCREDIBLY FUNNY' CAITLIN MORAN
'WONDERFUL' GILLIAN ANDERSON
'THIS YEAR'S SORROW AND BLISS' DAILY MAIL

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.

'IF YOU LIKED FLEABAG YOU WILL LOVE GREEN DOT' PANDORA SYKES
'YOU'LL TEAR THROUGH THE PAGES' HEAT MAGAZINE
'STAGGERINGLY GOOD AND WICKEDLY FUNNY' THE SATURDAY PAPER
'THE DEBUT OF THE YEAR' i PAPER

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 1.73MB
• FamilySharing(5)

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech
• Keine Einschränkung der Vorlesefunktionen, außer bei spezifischen Ausnahmen

Autor

Madeleine Gray is a writer and critic from Sydney. She was a 2021 Finalist for the Walkley Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, and has written for publications including the Sydney Review of Books, Australian Book Review and the Times Literary Supplement. She has a MSt in English Literature from the University of Oxford and is a current doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester. Green Dot is her first book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399612791
• Artikelnr.: 67562457

Rezensionen

Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Best Debut Fiction
An IndieNext Pick for March 2024
Named a Best Book of 2024 (So Far) the BBC
Named a Best Book of February 2024 by People Magazine
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Debutiful
Named one of Electric Literature's "42 Queer Books You Need to Read in 2024"

"Gray skillfully blends a rom-com-like breeziness with incisive, nuanced commentary on societal expectations, modern disconnection, responsibility in relationships and selfhood. . . What both Hera and this reader expect to happen in the relationship happens, but this doesn't come as a disappointment. Instead, the novel earns its way toward a satisfactory resolution for

Hera, who is, after all, the hero of the story."
-Alexandra Chang, The New York Times Book Review

"A heartfelt debut about the joys and disasters of young adulthood."
-People Magazine

"An exceptionally funny debut . . . Perceptive and hilarious, Hera charges ahead, fully aware of the trope into which she has stumbled. Gray's prose circumvents any hint of banality; the language is too raw, too funny, too simultaneously irreverent and vulnerable."
-Jackie Thomas-Kennedy, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Conversations with Friends meets Several People Are Typing."
-Michelle Hart, Electric Literature

"Gray's debut is a laugh-out-loud, messy love affair that is a refreshing take on younger women and older married men."
-Debutiful

"Woven with layers, from the love affair at its surface to the enthralling depths of what it means to be alive, Green Dot is rich, meaningful and hilarious. With a messy narrator who you are guaranteed to love, this is the kind of story that sets itself apart."
-Isabelle McConville, B&N Reads

"Green Dot is a sparkling debut-laugh out loud funny and achingly sad."
-Gillian Anderson, award-wining actress

"[Gray] is such a major talent. . . . so painfully and yet whoopingly witty at the same time. What a writer!"
-Nigella Lawson, author of Nigella Express

"By the time Hera finds out that Arthur is married, it's already too late-she's enamored. Gray's writing skillfully captures the passion of their early trysts. The sex scenes crackle with energy, and the chemistry between Hera and Arthur is believable and seductive. . . A breezy, heartfelt coming-of-age story for Gen Zers concerned with how to grow up without growing cold."
-Kirkus Reviews

"Hera is vibrantly written, and Gray thankfully provides her narration with enough distance for self-clarity. . . . Gray's unflinching bildungsroman is great fun."
-Publishers Weekly

"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, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had

"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, New York Times bestselling author of How To Be A Woman

"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

Green Dot is a sparkling debut - laugh out loud funny and achingly sad . . . Makes us consider that age-old question: why do something even though we know we shouldn't? Madeleine Gray is a dazzling writer - a huge talent Gillian Anderson