Careering: 'I loved loved loved it' Marian Keyes

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Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. This is a story about Imogen's long fight for her 'dream job' and the pressures women face getting there, especially in the media industry. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Will she wake up to the way she’s being exploited before her protege realises that not everything is copy?

This is a fabulous and fierce take on womanhood in the workplace and the toxic relationship we can have with our vocation. I couldn’t connect between the Imogen I was reading about, having a panic attack, hiding in a cupboard and the Imogen who would go to a sex party. there’s also some great (and to me, very relatable) commentary on the class and financial inequities that come with working in the media industry, and also the struggle of being a working class 20-something living in london. Buchanan portrays women and their lives better than anyone and I came out the other side feeling thoroughly broken and yet somehow stronger than before.

Careering centres itself around the pressures women face in the workplace and in the case of this novel within the media industry, where we face criticism and nuclear burnout to become the idealised ‘successful career woman’ with it all. Will she wake up to the way she’s being exploited before her protégé realises that not everything is copy? I believe that, in general, the book manages to portray in a proper way the misfortunes, problems, and barriers that we have in the current job market, especially when it comes to young women, bringing very valuable and pertinent reflections on how to deal with these issues and validating feelings that often seem to be wrong, isolated and insignificant because they are not debated in an open and welcoming way in most spaces. And at the end, despite all she had been through I wasn't sure anything would actually change going forward. Exploring the exhausting push-pull of trying to pin down a career you love but that doesn't love you back, Buchanan's book is set to capture the zeitgeist as so many of us question where we're at' Stylistcareering (verb) 1.

One of the most poignant threads throughout the novel is this idea of ‘The Girl’ as someone who’s wearing designer clothes and getting regular beauty treatments, when the reality for many 18-35 year old women trying to make it in London is living in a mouldy bedsit eating beans on toast! I believe that the impact of the protagonists' professional life dilemmas on their mental health could be explored in an even deeper way, with more detailed descriptions of their feelings. Hilarious and unflinchingly honest, Careering takes a hard look at the often toxic relationship working women have with their dream jobs. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.After reading and completely adoring Insatiable I knew that I had to read Careering as soon as I could get my hands on it. A great exploration of relationships with ourselves, our families, our colleagues, our past and futures, our careers, our dreams, our voices. Writing her blog around double shifts at the pub is neither fulfilling her creatively nor paying the bills.