Discontent

Life can"™t go on like this "“ can it? This book is for everyone who has ever wanted more: more time, more meaning, more connection. Discontent is an audacious, darkly funny novel and perfect summer read about a young woman in Madrid whose carefully crafted office persona threatens to crack when she"™s forced to attend her company"™s annual retreat ''A wry work of spectacular wit . . Absolutely brilliant'' Danya Kukafka, author of Notes on an execution "˜I adored our heroine . Razor-sharp with a riveting climax"™ Anna Dorn, author of Perfume and Pain On the surface, Marisa"™s life looks enviable. She lives in a nice apartment in the heart of Madrid, her friendly neighbour and lover Pablo lives downstairs, and she"™s risen quickly through the ranks at a successful advertising agency. And yet Marisa hates her job and everything about it. Over one hot summer she finds herself in danger of being exposed when she"™s forced to deliver a talk on creativity at a horrendous team-building retreat. Surrounded by psychopathic bosses, flirty facilitators, and an excess of drugs, Marisa is pushed to the brink of a complete spiral. Discontent is an audacious, darkly funny novel about acting on our wilder impulses to reclaim our lives from work. "˜Intelligent, engaging . totally hilarious"™ Aysegül Savas, author of The Anthropologists