An unforgettable first novel, an author to shout about, a campaign to ensure that everyone knows this is the funniest, sharpest read of the year.
Consisting entirely of staff emails, e spends a fortnight in the company of Miller Shanks, an advertising agency that scales dizzying peaks of incompetence. Among the cast are a CEO with an MBA from the Joseph Stalin School of Management, a Creative Director who is a genius, if only in his own head, designers and copywriters driven by breasts, beer or Bach Flower Remedies, and secretaries who drip honey and spit blood.
The novel is a tapestry of insincerity, backstabbing and bare-arsed bitchiness: that is to say, everyday office politics. Oh yes, and there is some work to be done too – the quest for advertising’s Eldorado, the Coca-Cola account.
e is sleazy, scurrilous and scabrously funny. It also contains a first-class joke about the Pope and sound advice on the maintenance of industrial carpet tiles.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007100682
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 250 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
Praise for e‘A brilliantly plotted comic novel about life in an advertising agency, narrated entirely through office emails. It gives me more sense that literature is alive and kicking than anything else I’ve read in these millennial 12 months.’ Humphrey Carpenter, Sunday Times Review of the Year ‘Lively, viciously funny and about as switched on as a novel can be’ Mirror ‘Hilarious’ Cosmopolitan
We all enjoyed this book. A bit over the top at times, but very funny. Any one who has worked in an office will recognise some of the characters
A really enjoyable and funny read.It's got all the key ingredients for an interesting modern office farce, interesting insights into the world of advertising and marketing.Highly recommended.
I accidently read the sequel before I read this one which is a bit of a shame as the sequel is better. This book is good and I enjoyed it but 'E squared' is funnier. I recommend them both.
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