Green Dot

Green Dot by Madeleine Gray

This is another bloody great debut novel that has been published this year. There is a huge influx of very good writers at the moment and Gray is no exception.

This story follows Hera, a lass in her 20’s navigating her first job as a corporate slave working as a community moderator aka getting rid of trolls from their published articles. As she navigates her first full-time corporate slave role, she meets Arthur. And I reckon this is exactly how a workplace-affair occurs. She seems to nail the lingo, the other characters who send inappropriate instant messages in the brick jungle of the 9-5 grind. Hera finds her escape in Arthur, starting with sneaky messages, leading to drinks, into dinners and then we are in a full blown affair.

Hera goes into this as a young impressionable woman, where her decisions have previously been whether to go and get drunk with girlfriends or stay home with her Dad and Jude (dog). She finds herself in a life she didn’t expect but believes, this life, is everything she will ever need.

I thoroughly enjoyed this. It was well written and it seems Gray has experienced a corporate jungle life where the most exciting thing of the week is drinks with older, cooler colleagues. I know we have all been there.