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Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray
Narrated by: Sasha Simon
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Hera Stephen is clawing through her mid-twenties, working as an underpaid comment moderator in an overly air-conditioned newsroom by day and kicking around Sydney with her two best friends by night. Instead of money or stability, she has so far accrued one ex-girlfriend, several hundred hangovers, and a dog-eared novel collection.
While everyone around her seems to have slipped effortlessly into adulthood, Hera has spent the years since school caught between feeling that she is purposefully rejecting traditional markers of success to forge a life of her own and wondering if she's actually just being left behind. Then she meets Arthur, an older, married colleague. Intoxicated by the promise of ordinary happiness he represents, Hera falls headlong into a workplace romance that everyone, including her, knows is doomed to fail.
Green Dot is witty, profound and painfully relatable in its exploration of solitude, desire, and the allure of chasing something that promises nothing. It is a must-read for fans of Meg Mason, Sally Rooney and Dolly Alderton.

‘I felt so much joy reading this utterly assured writing. Green Dot is written with such poise, such confidence, I could not look away. I was mesmerised by its sheer brilliance.’ JESSIE TU, author of A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing

‘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, author of How to Be a Woman

‘I am obsessed with this book. I am obsessed with Hera, with her dad, her friends, her dog. I am obsessed with how funny she is, and how hopeful and dark and tender and bleak the world is through her eyes. Green Dot is a book about love, and how stupid and funny and absolutely beautiful life can be. I would read it forever if I could.’ LAURA MCPHEE-BROWNE, author of Cherry Beach

‘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, host and author of How to Fail

‘If you liked Fleabag you will enjoy Green Dot, an Australian debut about whimsical twenty-something Hera, who falls for an unsuitable man’ PANDORA SYKES, author of How Do We Know We’re Doing it Right?

‘Laugh-out-loud funny and beautifully, brutally relatable - Green Dot is a book that will stay with me for a very long time.’ EWA RAMSEY, author of The Morbids

‘Incredibly funny and a bit too real. This debut novel captures the zeitgeist.’ BRIGID DELANEY, author of Reasons Not to Worry and Wellmania

‘Just brilliant. Hilarious and sexy but so wise about the human heart, too. Witty as Fleabag, psychologically insightful as Sally Rooney - everyone will be talking about Green Dot’ LUCIE WHITEHOUSE, author of Keep You Close

'A gripping read that's smart, funny and highly relatable' LIBBY PAGE, author of The Lido©2023 Madeleine Gray (P)2023 W. F. Howes Ltd and Allen & Unwin Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Women's Fiction Funny Witty
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Thoroughly enjoyed despite wanting to slap many characters at many different moments through the novel

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The just published Green Dot, the debut novel by Australian author Madeleine Gray, is about a woman in her mid-20s, landing her first job, and what she gets up to.

It’s breezy and an easy read. I’m ploughing through it, using it as a break from a book that is disturbing me a bit.

Green Dot provides me with insights into a generation that, had I and my offspring procreated in our early twenties, I could be grandfather to. Do I lack empathy and understanding, or does it not quite hit the mark? Lacking sufficient cultural awareness to appreciate the many references clearly doesn’t help.

The breeziness dissipates, replaced by a more serious tone, as an extra-marital relationship becomes serious and has its troubles. How will highly self-aware Hera deal with it? My appreciation deepens. But ultimately, not for me.

Well conceived

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The main character is very hard to like and this is really like watching a train wreck in slow motion. A little too cringe for me

a strange story

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Great writing style. Detailed flow of events and very interesting character development & profiles. Can easily see how Hera & Arthur are dysfunctional in their own ways. Their affair is something keeps you guessing how it will end.
The very ending is a bit different but quirky with what I imagine was also “green dot” on a canvass.

Detailed love affair - manipulative & narcissistic  characters

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Definitely an insight into how this kind of thing can happen to a young, intelligent woman. I wanted to shake her at times. The main character Hera was a good 15 years younger than me, and I felt every bit a different generation. But her take on life was eye opening.

Insightful

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