Marisa is in her 30s and a creative strategist at an advertising agency in Madrid. Her job is about selling things people don''t need to people who don''t want them, and she can see right through it to the late-capitalist mess we''re in. But what to do with this knowledge, other than hide in the basement of the Prado, arm herself with tranquilisers and irony, name her spiralling anxiety ''Berto'' after a failed lover, and wonder whether everyone else cries when their alarm wakes them in the morning? Over the course of one hot summer, Marisa moves between her apartment terrace, her office, and her company''s retreat in the mountains, as the clock ticks down towards a horrifying ''team-building'' weekend. Life can''t go on like this - can it? Marisa is bitter but also funny and curious, she loves culture and people - just not like this. This is a book for everyone who has ever wanted more : more time, more meaning, more connection.

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Beatriz Serrano is a writer and a journalist who has written for publications such as BuzzFeed, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, S Moda, and Vogue. She works for El País and, along with writer Guillermo Alonso, co-directs the prizewinning podcast Arsénico Caviar. Discontent is her first novel. She currently lives in Madrid. ****

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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.

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
'Hilarious' Daily Mail
'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.

'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

*'*A love song to the listless and lonely of the LinkedIn age' Ariel Courage, author of Bad Nature