Our February Book - Chapters & Chai Book Club
February is the month of love, and our book club pick this month is ‘Green Dot’ by Madeleine Gray, a literary fiction contemporary romance!
About ‘Green Dot’ by Madeleine Gray
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing
At twenty-four, Hera is a clump of unmet potential. To her, the future is nothing but an exhausting thought exercise, one depressing hypothetical after another. She’s sharp in more ways than one, adrift in her own smug malaise, until her new job moderating the comments section of an online news outlet—a role even more mind-numbing than it sounds—introduces her to Arthur, a middle-aged journalist. Though she's preferred women to men for years now, she soon finds herself falling into an all-consuming affair with him. She is coming apart with want and loving every second of it! Well, except for the tiny hiccup that Arthur has a wife—and that she has no idea Hera exists.
With its daringly specific and intimate voice, Green Dot is a darkly hilarious and deeply felt examination of the joys and indignities of coming into adulthood against the pitfalls of the twenty-first century and the winding, tortuous, and often very funny journey we take in deciding who we are and who we want to be.
Genre: Literary Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, LGBTQIA+
Average Rating (Goodreads): 3.64
Pages: 320
About Madeleine Gray
Madeleine Gray is a writer and critic from Sydney. Her first novel, Green Dot, was an international bestseller. Her second novel is Chosen Family. She has an MSt in English from the University of Oxford and a PhD in feminist literary theory from the University of Manchester.
You can get your copy of 'Green Dot' at Waterstones Worthing with the Chapters & Chai discount!
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Happy Reading,
Keeley