Discontent

Life can`t go on like this - can it? A sexy and hilarious Spanish bestseller, where a young woman`s office persona threatens to crack when she`s forced to attend her company`s annual retreat. `Tremendously entertaining` Guardian `A wild ride` Express `An impressive new comic talent` Daily Telegraph `Wry and incisive... very funny` New York Times 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, for everyone who has ever wanted more: more time, more meaning, more connection.