<p><b>'A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. It's brutal—and brilliant.' - Zadie Smith</b><br><br><b>Winner of the </b><b>Dylan Thomas Prize </b><br><b>Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Fiction Debut of the Year<br>Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction</b><br><br>Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the wrong men, and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. No one seems to care that she doesn’t really know what she’s doing with her life beyond looking for her next hook-up.<br><br>And then she meets Eric, a white middle-aged archivist with a suburban family, including a wife who has sort-of-agreed to an open marriage and an adopted black daughter who doesn’t have a single person in her lif
