{"product_id":"9781399734011","title":"Checking Out : The hilarious and unputdownable international bestseller","description":"Author(s): Mehdati, Meryem El, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 08\/05\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages, N\/A,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Sceptre,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945),\u003cbr\u003e Dimensions: 222 x 144 x 31\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\/EAN\/SKU: 9781399734011\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'So biting and refreshingly honest that the real world feels just a little more ridiculous by comparison'Jinwoo Chong, author of Flux'Honest, intelligent and funny'Andrea Abreu, author of Dogs of SummerLife is like a supermarket.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer name is Meryem, but you'd be surprised at how difficult people find that to spell. Meryem is twenty-five years old and has just started working at the offices of Supersaurio: the most important supermarket chain in the Canary Islands. Watched over by the chain's benevolent blue dinosaur logo, Meryem contends with co-workers who don't mean to sound sexist, but aren't women just harder work than men?, a boss who seems determined to make Meryem's life as miserable as possible, and Omar - smart, funny, very-senior-but-nevertheless-seems-like-a-normal-person Omar, who also happens to be devastatingly handsome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe follow Meryem as she makes the transition from intern, to temp, to arrive finally at the promised land of fixed employment - only to find that she might have left part of her soul behind.  'My relationship with this book has been a bit like the friendships you make in the bathrooms of nightclubs. Meryem, I don't know you but I love you as if you were my lifelong friend' Goodreads reviewer, ? ? ? ? ?'I want to meet Meryem for lunch'Goodreads reviewer, ? ? ? ? ?'Down with work'Goodreads reviewer, ? ? ? ? ?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mehdati, Meryem El","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55165528867202,"sku":"9781399734011","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9781399734011.jpg?v=1745927201","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.live\/products\/9781399734011","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}