A Working Title I Want to Change: a Novel

Explores the bleach-scented, dizzyingly over-lit world of a supermarket’s aisles, as austerity makes everyone within the store’s walls poorer.

Set against the backdrop of Britain’s austerity years in 2013–14, A Working Title follows the lives of exhausted supermarket employees whose struggles mirror the political and social upheavals of the time. Under the harsh fluorescent glare of Tesco’s flagship store, consumerism’s rituals and illusions are exposed in all their banality and menace.

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