Jillian Av Halle Butler

<p><b>From the author of the ''great'' (Dolly Alderton), ''terrific'' (Zadie Smith) <i>The New Me</i>, comes a subversive, hilarious portrait of two colleagues, each more like the other than they would care to admit.</b><br><b><br>''Wretchedly riveting'' Jia Tolentino,<i> New Yorker</i></b><br><br>''<b>Butler is an essential contemporary voice'' <i>Literary Hub</i></b><br><b><br>''A master of writing about work and its discontents'' <i>The Millions</i></b><br><b><br>Megan </b>is only twenty-four but her life feels like a dead end. Working as a gastroenterologist''s receptionist and resenting the success and happiness of her friends, the only thing that makes her feel better is obsessively critiquing the behaviour of her colleague, <b>Jillian</b>. A grotesquely optimistic thirty-five-year-old single mother, Jillian''s chirpy positivity obscures her mounting struggles - until her downfall is precipitated by the purchase of a dog . . .<br><br><b>''Outrageous and amusing ... reads like rub