A BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN STYLIST, DAILY MAIL, THE I, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND RED
A GUARDIAN SUMMER READING PICK
'One of the best books you will read all year'
ELIZABETH DAY'Brilliant. What a writer'
NIGELLA LAWSON 'Incredibly funny'
CAITLIN MORAN'Wonderful'
GILLIAN ANDERSON
'This year's
Sorrow and Bliss. Hilarious and heartbreaking'
DAILY MAIL'The book of the summer'
IN STYLEHera is in her mid-twenties, which seems young to everyone except people in their mid-twenties.
Since leaving school, she has been trying to kick and scream into existence a life she cares about, but with little success so far.
Until she meets Arthur.
He works with her, he is older than her, he is also married. But in her soulless office - the large cold room she feels destined to spend her life in - he is a source of much-needed sustenance.
And though Hera has previously dated women, she soon falls headlong into a workplace romance that will quickly consume her life.
Laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving and whip smart, Green Dot is a story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing and the winding, torturous, often hilarious journey we take in deciding who we are and who we want to be.
'If you liked
Fleabag you will love
Green Dot'
PANDORA SYKES'Gray nails the angst of being young. You'll tear through the pages'
HEAT MAGAZINE'A hilarious novel about falling in love with someone you really shouldn't'
DAILY MAIL'Gray has written the novel of the summer'
RUSSH'The debut of the year'
THE I PAPER
At 24, Hera is a violently unsatisfied disaster. To her, the future is nothing but an exhausting thought exercise, one depressing hypothetical after another. She's a mean little thing, adrift in her own smug malaise, until her new job as an "online community moderator" of a news outlet's online comment section-a job even more mind-numbing than it sounds-introduces her to Arthur, a middle-aged journalist. Though she's preferred women to men for years now, she relishes becoming a cliché as their mutual infatuation quickly festers into affair. She is coming apart with want and loving every second of it! Well, except for the tiny hiccup of Arthur's wife - and that said wife has no idea Hera exists.
With her daringly specific and intimate voice, 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.
