<p>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\nMeet 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.\nUntil 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?\nUtterly 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...</p>

The Odyssey

Lara Williams

Humor & Entertainment

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Supper Club

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Penguin Canada

Outsiders: An Anthology

Susan James

Anna Wood

Leone Ross

Eley Williams

Kirsty Logan

Sarvat Hasin

Jen Campbell

Julia Armfield

Heather Parry

Stephanie Victoire

Beverley Ho

Anna Walsh

Emma Hutton

Literary

3 of Cups Press

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