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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, 35-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 spiralling towards 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.

©2020 Halle Butler (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group Animals Cosy Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Fiction Heartfelt Suspense
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I loved the New Me but this is just horrid. The characters are sweary, two dimensional morons and the plot goes absolutely nowhere, whilst the description somehow manages to be be very detailed. There is one section where you hear in looong detail about Jillian cleaning her flat... step by step, it is so tedious and horrible to listen to. I would have quit the book if it wasn't so short. And God... the repeated descriptors, "hollow" "asshole" etc all the way through. Bad, I'm afraid. Very annoyed to have spent a credit on this.

truly awful

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loved the new me but this one felt a bit rushed and substanceless in comparison. it had funny moments but it didn't really hang together and there wasn't enough engagement, with the characters or the threads of the story. I love Halle Butler's writing so will read her next book but this one was a bit... meh

not as good as The New Me

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