{"product_id":"9781399734011","title":"Checking Out","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthors: Meryem El Mehdati \u0026amp; Julia Sanches\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Fiction in translation\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 8\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e May 2025 by Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton (Sceptre) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 320 pages, N\/A \u003cbr\u003e222mm x 144mm x 31mm | 424g\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"gardners-meta\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/StarEmpty.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'So biting and refreshingly honest that the real world feels just a little more ridiculous by comparison'Jinwoo Chong, author of Flux'Honest, intelligent and funny'Andrea Abreu, author of Dogs of SummerLife is like a supermarket.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer name is Meryem, but you'd be surprised at how difficult people find that to spell. Meryem is twenty-five years old and has just started working at the offices of Supersaurio: the most important supermarket chain in the Canary Islands. Watched over by the chain's benevolent blue dinosaur logo, Meryem contends with co-workers who don't mean to sound sexist, but aren't women just harder work than men?, a boss who seems determined to make Meryem's life as miserable as possible, and Omar - smart, funny, very-senior-but-nevertheless-seems-like-a-normal-person Omar, who also happens to be devastatingly handsome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe follow Meryem as she makes the transition from intern, to temp, to arrive finally at the promised land of fixed employment - only to find that she might have left part of her soul behind.  'My relationship with this book has been a bit like the friendships you make in the bathrooms of nightclubs. Meryem, I don't know you but I love you as if you were my lifelong friend' Goodreads reviewer, ? ? ? ? ?'I want to meet Meryem for lunch'Goodreads reviewer, ? ? ? ? ?'Down with work'Goodreads reviewer, ? ? ? ? ?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55340968804727,"sku":"9781399734011","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781399734011.jpg?v=1750431934","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9781399734011","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}