Jillian (Paperback, Unabridged Edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2020
Authors:	Halle Butler
Dimensions:	196 x 128 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
Edition:	Unabridged Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4746-1757-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Office & workplace > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Domestic animals & pets > Dogs > Dog obedience & training
LSN:	1-4746-1757-3
Barcode:	9781474617574

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