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Beatriz Serrano's first novel. Marisa, 32, heads creative strategy at an advertising agency in Madrid; she loathes the job and copes with each workday thanks to tranquillisers and YouTube videos. In the week before a team-building weekend with her colleagues, her anxiety spikes and the front she has kept up for years begins to crack.

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Who it's for
For anyone who has felt worn down by office work and wants a novel about workplace malaise and mental health. The author has said it is not about economic precarity but about a moral and emotional one, and that her portrait of the office draws on Erving Goffman's theories of social life as performance.
Why people still read it
By November 2024 it was in its tenth edition, had passed 50,000 copies sold and its television rights had been sold. It was translated into English in 2025, and The New York Times Book Review saw it as a new view of the disillusioned workforce.

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