Product Category: Top -> ->
Jillian
Author: Halle Butler
Illustrator:
Illustrator:
Retail Price: | $22.99 |
Betabooks Price | $18.39 |
ISBN: 9781474617574
Format: Paperback
Published: July 2020
Published By: Hachette Australia
Stock Availability
Titles that are READY TO SHIP will be sent from our warehouse within 2 business days while stocks last. Click here for more details.
Published: July 2020
Published By: Hachette Australia
Stock Availability
Titles that are READY TO SHIP will be sent from our warehouse within 2 business days while stocks last. Click here for more details.
Product Description
From the author of the 'great' (Dolly Alderton), 'terrific' (Zadie Smith) THE NEW ME, comes a subversive, hilarious portrait of two colleagues, each more like the other than they would care to admit.From the author of the 'great' (Dolly Alderton), 'terrific' (Zadie Smith) THE NEW ME, comes a subversive, hilarious portrait of two colleagues, each more like the other than they would care to admit.Twenty-four-year-old Megan may have her whole life ahead of her, but it already feels like a dead end, thanks to her dreadful job as a gastroenterologist's receptionist and her heart-clogging resentment of the success and happiness of everyone around her. But no one stokes Megan's bitterness quite like her coworker, Jillian, a grotesquely optimistic, thirty-five-year-old single mother whose chirpy positivity obscures her mounting struggles.Megan and Jillian's lives become increasingly precarious as their faulty coping mechanisms--denial, self-help books, alcohol, religion, prescription painkillers, obsessive criticism, alienated boyfriends, and, in Jillian's case, the misguided purchase of a dog--send them spiraling toward their downfalls. Wickedly authentic and brutally funny, JILLIAN is a subversive portrait of two women trapped in cycles of self-delusion and self-destruction, each more like the other than they would care to admit.