Careering: 'I loved loved loved it' Marian Keyes

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Will she wake up to the way she’s being exploited before her protege realises that not everything is copy? A love story about work, self-worth and modern womanhood, Careering is, quite simply, the funniest novel I've read all year. She is working an unpaid internship at Panache magazine and whilst she is thankful for the opportunity, she is fed up of being given the shit jobs and earning no money whilst working pretty much full time. Will she wake up to the way she’s being exploited before her protégé realises that not everything is copy?

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Daisy has also appeared on a number of TV and radio shows including Woman's Hour , The Today Programme , Soul Music , A Good Read , This Morning and Good Morning Britain . As she did with sex in her first novel, Insatiable, now Daisy Buchanan holds up a mirror to the changing way we work in the raw and relatable Careering . You can decide to think more about Imogen’s relationship (or lack of one) with her family, or you can just think that a passing comment is just that, a passing comment. Careering certainly feels like there is a lot more depth to it than Insatiable and whilst I loved Daisy Buchanan's writing in Insatiable, I loved it even more in her second novel.She's full of determination, hopes and dreams for her future career but the late nights, an empty bank account and a rented room without a window aren't making climbing the corporate ladder particularly enjoyable. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. I found myself relating to some of Imogen's thought processes and difficulties, but every time I had to sit through a chapter from Harry's perspective I felt my eyes roll into the back of my head because it was so boring and so nothing. Will she wake up to the way she's being exploited before her protege realises that not everything is copy?

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. 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! Daisy Buchanan’s second novel follows after her debut - last year’s Insatiable - this time feeling like a far more self-assured piece of fiction that delivers a sharp and witty narrative, all with Buchanan’s trademark spice. Apparently the dozens of unpaid internships where she was treated badly were what "made" her who she is today. I laughed a lot at the way things were described and the thoughts that came to mind during Imogen’s chapters.

From laughing out loud multiple times, to really feeling the points that she was making, I was thoroughly invested and enjoyed Careering from start to finish. Daisy has woven an astute tale of ambition and its place in women's lives, putting words to feelings I've had for age. 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.

Her books include the novels Insatiable (longlisted for the CWIP prize) , Careering (as heard on BBC Sounds) and Limelight, and the non-fiction titles How To Be A Grown Up and The Sisterhood. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Much like Insatiable, it brushes against some deeper themes, too, including grief and difficult familial relationships. All my life, I’ve worried I wasn’t pretty enough, that I wasn’t hot enough, that no men would want me. I just read an article in one of the Sunday supplements about these elevens, the pair of short, vertical frown lines that form in the gap between our eyebrows, which apparently must be Botoxed into oblivion before they start to multiply into other numbers. But Imogen's fairy-tale ending soon sours as she finds herself putting more and more of herself into writing for a company that doesn't care if she sinks or swims.

For me, one of the best elements of the book is portraying plural women with diverse dreams, experiences, and characteristics, showing how the corporate world can affect us at any given moment of our journey.The book was at times humorous and at times spilled in to Bridget Jones territory, I’m thinking the Gentleman interview. However, somewhere along the way, the story lost its original momentum and that is where I also lost my enthusiasm. A great exploration of relationships with ourselves, our families, our colleague's, our past and futures, our careers, our dreams, our voices. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. And at the end, despite all she had been through I wasn't sure anything would actually change going forward.