- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- ISBN: 9781529970371
- Length: 319 minutes
- Price: £14.00
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Life can’t go on like this – can it?
An audacious, darkly funny, perfect summer read about a young woman in Madrid whose office persona threatens to crack when she’s forced to attend her company’s annual retreat
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 a bold, biting novel about acting on our wilder impulses to reclaim our lives from work.
This book is for everyone who has ever wanted more: more time, more meaning, more connection.
'Serrano writes with a caustic flair for detail, with charm and utter hilarity. Absolutely brilliant' Danya Kukafka, author of Notes on an Execution
‘I adored our heroine ... A razor-sharp debut’ Anna Dorn, author of Perfume and Pain
‘Intelligent, engaging ... totally hilarious’ Aysegül Savas, author of The Anthropologists
© Beatriz Serrano 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
Life can’t go on like this – can it?
An audacious, darkly funny, perfect summer read about a young woman in Madrid whose office persona threatens to crack when she’s forced to attend her company’s annual retreat
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 a bold, biting novel about acting on our wilder impulses to reclaim our lives from work.
This book is for everyone who has ever wanted more: more time, more meaning, more connection.
'Serrano writes with a caustic flair for detail, with charm and utter hilarity. Absolutely brilliant' Danya Kukafka, author of Notes on an Execution
‘I adored our heroine ... A razor-sharp debut’ Anna Dorn, author of Perfume and Pain
‘Intelligent, engaging ... totally hilarious’ Aysegül Savas, author of The Anthropologists
© Beatriz Serrano 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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