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Discontent

byBeatriz Serrano, Mara Faye Lethem (Translator)
Life can’t go on like this – can it? This book is for everyone who has ever wanted more: more time, more meaning, more connection.

On the surface, Marisa’s life looks enviable. She lives in a nice apartment in the heart of Madrid, her friendly neighbour and lover Pablo lives downstairs, and she’s risen quickly through the ranks at a successful advertising agency.

And yet Marisa hates her job and everything about it. Over one hot summer she finds herself in danger of being exposed when she’s forced to deliver a talk on creativity at a horrendous team-building retreat. Surrounded by psychopathic bosses, flirty facilitators, and an excess of drugs, Marisa is pushed to the brink of a complete spiral.

Discontent is a bold, biting novel about acting on our wilder impulses to reclaim our lives from work.

Tremendously entertaining... peppered with pithy insights into the modern workplace, and plenty of vivid characters

Guardian

About Beatriz Serrano

Beatriz Serrano is a writer and a journalist who has written for publications such as BuzzFeed, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, S Moda, and Vogue. She works for El País and, along with writer Guillermo Alonso, co-directs the prizewinning podcast Arsénico Caviar. Discontent is her first novel. She currently lives in Madrid.
Details
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • ISBN: 9781529952230
  • Length: 192 pages
  • Price: £9.99