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From the prize-winning author of Supper Club comes a wickedly funny and slyly poignant new satire on modern life - for fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Convenience Store Woman, and J. G. Ballard''s High Rise

''Far from normal'' The Times

''This book is a serious vibe'' Cosmopolitan

''Lara Williams is the queen of smart modern satire. I could read her all day'' Emma Jane Unsworth

Meet Ingrid. She works on a gargantuan luxury cruise liner, where she spends her days reorganizing the merchandise and waiting for long-term guests to drop dead in the changing rooms. On her days off, she disembarks from the ship and gets blind drunk on whatever the local alcohol is. It''s not a bad life. And it distracts her from thinking about the other life she left behind five years ago.

Until one day she is selected for the employee mentorship scheme - an initiative run by the ship''s mysterious captain and self-anointed

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From the prize-winning author of Supper Club comes a wickedly funny and slyly poignant new satire on modern life -... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 1/21/2022
    ISBN13: 9780241502815, 978-0241502815
    ISBN10: 0241502810

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    From the prize-winning author of Supper Club comes a wickedly funny and slyly poignant new satire on modern life - for fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Convenience Store Woman, and J. G. Ballard''s High Rise

    ''Far from normal'' The Times

    ''This book is a serious vibe'' Cosmopolitan

    ''Lara Williams is the queen of smart modern satire. I could read her all day'' Emma Jane Unsworth

    Meet Ingrid. She works on a gargantuan luxury cruise liner, where she spends her days reorganizing the merchandise and waiting for long-term guests to drop dead in the changing rooms. On her days off, she disembarks from the ship and gets blind drunk on whatever the local alcohol is. It''s not a bad life. And it distracts her from thinking about the other life she left behind five years ago.

    Until one day she is selected for the employee mentorship scheme - an initiative run by the ship''s mysterious captain and self-anointed

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