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A brilliant debut from Madeleine Gray!
I gobbled this down in a couple of days! An unhinged, hot mess, sharp witty page-turner with insufferable irritating characters. They pull you in and make ... READ MORE
Funny yet moving read
This book was not what I thought it would be, it was so much better! It takes you through the emotions of 24 year old Hera who doesn’t have the best outloo... READ MORE
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GREEN DOT WAS SO GOOD!
The cultural references made me laugh out loud.
Hera makes questionable decisions but she is a great storyteller and I enjoyed... READ MORE
Hilarious and Heartbreaking
An incredible debut. This book follows Hera, a loveable main character who definitely makes some questionable decisions, as she falls head first into a rel... READ MORE
Arthur is typing...
In Green Dot, we follow 24-year-old, Hera - aimless, selfish, sad - as she lives life largely just waiting for the green dot to appear on her messaging app... READ MORE
A great debut- Perfect for fans of Heisey's Really Good Actually, One Day by Nicholls, Heartburn by Ephron, Sally Rooney, Meg Mason and Fleabag.
This was a witty tragi -comedy .with some great one liners.
Hera has emerged from studying with limited job prospects and is living at home with her Dad... READ MORE
Entertaining, funny and a stunning debut!
Green Dot is a wonderfully written novel that follows Hera, a young woman in her twenties who gets into a passionate relationship with Arthur, her married ... READ MORE
Quietly devastating but essential reading, wow!
This book was amazing from start to finish. Hera is a fresh and relatable character who loves too hard for too long. She's navigating a lot: early adulthoo... READ MORE
Better than expected
Hera felt like a very relatable character at times especially with that feeling of being in your 20s and not knowing what to do your life or career. She de... READ MORE
An amazing debut
As soon as I read the description of this book I knew I needed to read it, even though the story is something I’ve read a few times before the voice of Her... READ MORE
Witty and emotional
Green Dot is such a witty novel that grips you from the very beginning, Hera is a character you just can’t help but support despite all of her terrible dec... READ MORE
Coming-of-age in your mid twenties…
Great for fans of Dolly Alderton, Sally Rooney and Fleabag. A beautiful and heartbreaking novel that follows Hera as she embarks on an affair with an older... READ MORE
Chaotic, hilarious, and painfully relatable
Hera instantly became one of my favourite protagonists. She's in her mid-20s, she hates capitalism and the idea of work, never truly feels like a grown up,... READ MORE
Gray's writing and handling of the topic is masterful.
Considering this book is about a topic I generally find wildly mishandled and glamorized by today's fiction, I found this book to be fantastically well wri... READ MORE
A favourite of the year
I really loved this one - I was lucky to get a proof, but loved it so much I’ve since bought the hardback for multiple friends to share it with. By the tim... READ MORE
One of the sharpest novels you’ll read!
I was worried that this book might be one of those super hyped ones which I then found disappointing, but turns out I absolutely LOVED it and gave it a big... READ MORE
Synopsis
Hera is in her mid-twenties, which seems young to everyone except people in their mid-twenties.
Since leaving school, she has been trying to kick and scream into existence a life she cares about, but with little success so far.
Until she meets Arthur.
He works with her, he is older than her, he is also married. But in her soulless office - the large cold room she feels destined to spend her life in - he is a source of much-needed sustenance.
And though Hera has previously dated women, she soon falls headlong into a workplace romance that will quickly consume her life.
Laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving and whip smart, Green Dot is a story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing and the winding, torturous, often hilarious journey we take in deciding who we are and who we want to be.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- ISBN: 9781399612784
- Number of pages: 384
- Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 24 mm
- Weight: 284g
- Languages: English
Customer Reviews
View allA devastatingly good debut novel filled with guts, tenderness and wit
I adored "Green Dot" by Madeleine Gray and from the opening pages I was trotting along at Hera's side, hanging on her every word. Watching her fall headlon... READ MORE
Great Read
Since Hera is 24 I wouldn't consider this a coming of age story, but in a way it kind of feels like one. Hera seems very immature and ends up falling for a... READ MORE
A witty story about how love can tear you apart
The protagonist, Hera is 24 years old and has been at University for an extended period of time, where she now has finished with about three degrees. She l... READ MORE
Good Debut
Thank you to the publishers for the review copy, I'd put off reading it for a little while because I wasn't sure it was going to be for me...
But I have t... READ MORE
Frustrating and predictable
I heard good things about this, and with the writer being Australian, I thought there might be a new spin on the sad girl genre. There wasn't really anythi... READ MORE
Funny and affecting
This funny and affecting novel is narrated by Hera, a woman in her mid-twenties, living in Syndey. She’s a bit bewildered about her life. Only a few years ... READ MORE
hilarious!
This book is genuinely hilarious, really really funny. It's rare to find a book that makes me laugh out loud but the protagonist is just so funny.
An impressive debut.
Green Dot is the first novel by bestselling Australian author, Madeleine Gray. The audio version is narrated by Sasha Simon. At seventeen, Hera Stephen lik... READ MORE
Predictable yet infuriating
Hera was at the same time a very good and a very bad person. Thing is, I see myself into her now and I really don’t like that (but isn’t it what reading is... READ MORE