The new me - Halle Butler

Terrific.

So funny.

- Zadie Smith Monstrously depressing but so comic and well observed that I didn't really mind .

It is great.

- Dolly Alderton A dark comedy of female rage.

- Catherine Lacey Brilliant.

For fans of Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation.

- Pandora Sykes Funny, shocking, clever, and hugely entertaining.

- Roddy Doyle A definitive work of milennial literature.

- Jia Tolentino The best thing I've read in years.

- Emma Jane Unsworth Vicious .

hilariously spot on.

- Guardian In a windowless office, a woman explains something from her real, nonwork life - about the frustration and indignity of returning her online shopping - to her colleagues.

One wears a topknot.

Another checks her pedometer.

Watching them all is Millie.

Thirty-years-old and an eternal temp, she says almost nothing, almost all of the time.

But then the possibility of a permanent job arises.

Will it bring the new life Millie is envisioning - one involving a gym membership, a book club, and a lot less beer and TV - finally within reach? Or will it reveal just how hollow that vision has become? Made me laugh and cry enough times to feel completely reborn.

- The Paris Review A definite work of millennial literature.

Wretchedly riveting, with the sick, obsessive pleasure of looking under a bandage at a wound.

- The New Yorker So darkly funny and acutely observed that it feels like a documentary.

- Andrew McMillan Anyone who has ever felt like their life is going nowhere - and to make it worse, going nowhere in an achingly slow manner - will recognize themselves.

- Nylon.