Not Working
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3.9 • 11 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
For fans of HBO’s Girls, Bridget Jones’s Diary and Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, a laugh-out-loud, irreverent debut novel about a woman trying—not to have it all—but to figure it all out.
Twenty-something Londoner Claire has just resigned from her job without a plan—and although she is pleased, her family and friends can't seem to understand. Before too long, she manages to push away both her safe, steady, brain-surgeon boyfriend and her difficult but loving mother.
Quirky, questioning Claire hilariously navigates and comments on the emotions and minutiae of day-to-day life as only someone without the distractions of a regular routine can. Brilliantly observed, touching and wildly funny, Not Working is the story of a life unraveling and a novel that skewers the questions that have been keeping us all awake at night.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This won’t be the hardest-hitting novel you’ll ever read, but it may be the most gloriously honest. Lisa Owens takes what should be a wonderfully ordinary tale—26-year-old Claire quits her dull job and flounders in unemployment—and turns it into a riotous examination of how life’s agonising minutiae takes over when you’re without purpose. Fittingly, it’s the book’s familiar little moments—the tiny lies we tell to lubricate awkward social situations, the incandescent rage a poorly made latte can generate—that provide the greatest joy. In scenes with Claire’s charming, supportive boyfriend Luke, Not Working sparkles as an honest, sympathetic portrait of how joblessness can test a couple’s commitment.
Customer Reviews
Entertaining!
This book has been an entertaining way to spend an evening. I enjoyed the author's style and wit and would happily recommend this book to friends.