Green Dot

Win a copy of Green Dot—the Australian debut that was the talk of the London Book Fair.

‘I am obsessed with this book. This book is about love, and how stupid and funny and absolutely beautiful life can be. I would read it forever if I could.’
—Laura McPhee-Browne, author of Cherry Beach

Hera Stephen is clawing through her mid-20s, working as an underpaid comment moderator in an overly air-conditioned newsroom by day and kicking around Sydney with her two best friends by night. Instead of money or stability, she has so far accrued one ex-girlfriend, several hundred hangovers and a dog-eared novel collection.

While everyone around her seems to have slipped effortlessly into adulthood, Hera has spent the years since school caught between feeling that she is purposefully rejecting traditional markers of success to forge a life of her own and wondering if she’s actually just being left behind. Then she meets Arthur, an older, married colleague. Intoxicated by the promise of ordinary happiness he represents, Hera falls headlong into a workplace romance that everyone, including her, knows is doomed to fail.

With her daringly specific and intimate voice, Madeleine Gray has created an irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing; about the joys and indignities of coming into adulthood against the pitfalls of the 21st century; and the winding, torturous and often very funny journey we take in deciding who we are and who we want to be.

Green Dot by Madeleine Gray

Out 3 October from Allen & Unwin

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