Lara Williams Libros

Devastatingly perceptive, savagely funny and wildly original - the essential coming-of-age story for our times. With the deadpan wit of Fleabag and ruthless insight of Cat Person, Lara Williams tells a tale of rage and joy, hunger and friendship, bodies and the space they take up in the world.Twenty-nine year old Roberta has spent her whole life hungry - until the day she invents Supper Club.Supper Club is a secret society for hungry women. Women who are sick of bad men and bad sex, of hinted expectations to talk less, take less, be less. So they gather after dark and feast until they are sick. They drink and dance and roar. And, month by month, their bodies expand.At the centre of the Supper Club stands Roberta - cynical yet anxious, precocious and lost. She is seeking the answer to a simple question: if you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?This is a story about the hunger that never goes away. And it is a story about the people who make us what we are - who lead us astray and ultimately save us. You look hungry. Join the club.

From the prize-winning author of Supper Club comes a wickedly funny and slyly poignant new satire on modern life - for fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Convenience Store Woman, and J. G. Ballard's High Rise 'Far from normal' The Times 'This book is a serious vibe' Cosmopolitan 'Lara Williams is the queen of smart modern satire. I could read her all day' Emma Jane Unsworth Meet Ingrid. She works on a gargantuan luxury cruise liner, where she spends her days reorganizing the merchandise and waiting for long-term guests to drop dead in the changing rooms. On her days off, she disembarks from the ship and gets blind drunk on whatever the local alcohol is. It's not a bad life. And it distracts her from thinking about the other life she left behind five years ago. Until one day she is selected for the employee mentorship scheme - an initiative run by the ship's mysterious captain and self-anointed lifestyle guru, Keith, who pushes Ingrid further than she thought possible. But sooner or later, she will have to ask herself: how far is too far? Utterly original, mischievous and thought-provoking, The Odyssey is a merciless takedown of consumer capitalism and our anxious, ill-fated quests for something to believe in. And as its title suggests, it is a voyage that will eventually lead its unlikely heroine all the way home. Though she'd do almost anything to avoid getting there...

Ein einzigartiger Roman über den Sinn im Leben und die Suche danach Seit fünf Jahren arbeitet Ingrid auf dem riesigen Kreuzfahrtschiff WA. Ihre Tätigkeiten unterliegen dem Rotationsprinzip: mal bietet sie im Souvenirshop unnütze, aber teure Mitbringsel an, mal lackiert sie den Gästen die Fingernägel, dann wieder muss sie den Schiffspool beaufsichtigen. Zwischendurch gibt es mal einen Tag Landgang, an dem Ingrid sich für gewöhnlich maßlos betrinkt. Als sie von Keith, dem Schiffskapitän und selbsternannten Guru eines fragwürdigen Mentorenprogramms auserwählt wird, ändert sich die Gleichförmigkeit ihres Daseins. Keith drängt sie zur Auseinandersetzung mit ihrer Vergangenheit: eine kaputte Ehe, ein unerfüllter Kinderwunsch und ein exzessives Konsumverhalten treten an die Oberfläche, und Ingrid muss sich die Frage stellen, wie lange sie ihre Vergangenheit noch umschiffen kann.