Green Dot by Madeleine Gray

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.
 
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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
 
The intensity of Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion written with the lightness of Bridget Jones's Diary and the irreverence of Fleabag. - Johanna Thomas-Corr, THE SUNDAY TIMES
 
So droll, bawdy, sexy, hilarious and good fun, everything you read thereafter seems dull in comparison. - Anna Bonet, THE I PAPER
 
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