Careering: 'I loved loved loved it' Marian Keyes

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The zeitgeisty read tackles the myth of the girl boss, with feelings of imposter syndrome, burnout and comparison rife throughout.

Instead she’s tasked with creating an online magazine aimed at young women - or ‘The Girl’ as Harri likes think of her.Much like Insatiable, it brushes against some deeper themes, too, including grief and difficult familial relationships.

However, somewhere along the way, the story lost its original momentum and that is where I also lost my enthusiasm. Moreover, every side character felt like a complete caricature of what I would've imagined people in ~publishing~ and ~digital media~ to be like when I was 15. Harri, at the other end of her career, has also been bitten and betrayed by the industry she has given herself to. But don’t worry if you’re not an ambitious career woman (hi 👋), it’s still just a brilliant and often hilarious read! A love story about work, self-worth and modern womanhood, Careering is, quite simply, the funniest novel I've read all year.I just read an article in one of the Sunday supplements about these elevens, the pair of short, vertical frown lines that form in the gap between our eyebrows, which apparently must be Botoxed into oblivion before they start to multiply into other numbers. As she did with sex in her first novel, Insatiable, now Daisy Buchanan holds up a mirror to the changing way we work in the raw and relatable Careering . Though entertaining - you can't help but cringe at some of the situations Imogen finds herself in - the novel takes a hard look at the very real challenges women still face in the workplace today.