Madeleine Gray for Green Dot

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Madeleine Gray to the bookshop for what is already being hailed as the debut of 2024. This is a book at the forefront of everyone's minds, and we are so excited to hear from Madeleine herself about this heart-breaking yet hilarious story of one's woman's affair with an older man.

Hera is in her mid-twenties, which seems young to everyone except people in their mid-twenties.

Since leaving school, she has been trying to kick and scream into existence a life she cares about, but with little success so far.

Until she meets Arthur.

He works with her, he is older than her, he is also married. But in her soulless office – the large cold room she feels destined to spend her life in – he is a source of much-needed sustenance.

And though Hera has previously dated women, she soon falls headlong into a workplace romance that will quickly consume her life.

Laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving and whip smart, Green Dot is a story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing and the winding, torturous, often hilarious journey we take in deciding who we are and who we want to be.

‘Brilliant. Riveting. Sharp. Funny. Dark. I want to give Green Dot all the adjectives but will content myself with saying it is one of the best books you will read all year’
Elizabeth Day

‘I wolfed Green Dot down over two nights. An incredibly funny book about a woman having an affair that’s a really bad idea. Every sentence sparkles’
Caitlin Moran

‘Witty as Fleabag, psychologically insightful as Sally Rooney – everyone will be talking about Green Dot’
Lucie Whitehouse