Green Dot

Madeleine Gray

Orion Publishing Group, Limited, 2024 - Fiction - 384 pages

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

A GUARDIAN SUMMER READING PICK
'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. Hilarious and heartbreaking' DAILY MAIL
'The book of the summer' IN STYLE


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
'Gray nails the angst of being young. You'll tear through the pages' HEAT MAGAZINE
'A hilarious novel about falling in love with someone you really shouldn't' DAILY MAIL'Gray has written the novel of the summer' RUSSH
'The debut of the year' THE i PAPER

About the author

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 such publications as Overland, Meanjin, The Monthly, Sydney Review of Books, Australian Book Review, and the Times Literary Supplement. She also has a British connection, in that she has an MSt in English Literature from the University of Oxford and is a current doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Green Dot
• Author: Madeleine Gray
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Group, Limited, 2024
• ISBN: 139961276X, 9781399612760
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Erotica / General; Fiction / General; Fiction / Humorous / Black Humor; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Romance / Contemporary; Fiction / Romance / LGBTQ+ / Bisexual; Fiction / Romance / Workplace; Fiction / Satire; Fiction / Women; Humor / Topic / Business & Professional; Humor / Topic / Men, Women & Relationships