Brilliant. Riveting. Sharp. Funny. Dark. I want to give Green Dot all the adjectives but will content myself with saying it is one of the best books you will read all year

The intensity of Annie Ernaux’s Simple Passion written with the lightness of Bridget Jones’s Diary and the irreverence of Fleabag.

So droll, bawdy, sexy, hilarious and good fun, everything you read thereafter seems dull in comparison.

I wolfed Green Dot down over two nights. An incredibly funny book about a woman having an affair that’s a really bad idea. Every sentence sparkles

If you liked Fleabag you will love Green Dot

What a treat. It’s positively indecent that a book this funny should also be so moving and wise and well-observed. Everything I read after finishing it felt a bit anaemic in comparison. Every sentence is a joy.

One of the most buzzed-about books for 2024 is Green Dot and it’s a gulp of a read thanks to Gray’s fizzing protagonist, Hera… Hera’s longing, hope and pop culture references (everything from The Wire to Rupi Kaur and British pub opening times are used for proper laughs) make it one of the most entertaining reads we’ve had in a long time.

This book! What a gutting, funny, smart, smart, smart book it is, one that I absolutely inhaled while almost constantly emotionally bracing myself. Madeleine Gray is a hilarious, humane, and highly perceptive writer

Hilarious and heartbreaking, Green Dot might just be the debut of the year. It’s the type of book you can devour in no time.

As funny as it is bleak, Green Dot is a compulsive read that grapples with the quest for meaning and happiness in our fractured world. Madeleine Gray’s luminous debut echoes the canon of literature centred around affairs whilst achieving something completely fresh and asking questions that will stay with readers in the same way her protagonist Hera’s voice is sure to do.

Just brilliant. Hilarious and sexy but so wise about the human heart, too. Witty as Fleabag, psychologically insightful as Sally Rooney – everyone will be talking about Green Dot

Excruciatingly brilliant. I snorted with laughter and winced in recognition. So painfully, sharply true – this is without a doubt the best book about an affair I’ve read, and I’m including Graham Greene in that

This year’s Sorrow And Bliss… a hilarious and heartbreaking story about a young woman’s affair with an older colleague.

The hype around Australian author Madeleine Gray is hard to ignore, with writers from Caitlin Moran to Elizabeth Day earmarking this brilliantly funny and observant debut as a must-read.

Madeleine Gray’s brilliantly sharp Green Dot wrenchingly captures what so many of us yearn for: to be loved in the eyes of another for who we are… a book so hilariously real and devastating, you’ll never stop hoping (or reading).

Is there anything more deeply cursed than being a woman in your 20s? Novelists have been mining this period of life for years, but few get it as well as Madeleine Gray . . . Staggeringly good and wickedly funny

Madeleine Gray takes a scalpel to millennial malaise, office romance, and infidelity, and the result is a brainy, gutsy, nervy – and hilarious – wonder of a novel

A gripping read that’s smart, funny and highly relatable

I am obsessed with this book. I am obsessed with Hera, with her dad, her friends, her dog. I am obsessed with how funny she is, and how hopeful and dark and tender and bleak the world is through her eyes. Green Dot is a book about love, and how stupid and funny and absolutely beautiful life can be

Fresh and funny

Green Dot is sentence by sentence perfection. Razor sharp, hilarious, clever, and devastatingly honest, this is going to the book everyone will be talking about in 2024

A novel everyone will be talking about . . . Messy 20-something love from a witty new voice

A hilarious novel about falling in love with someone you really shouldn’t … I raced through it with increasing delight … Sharp and wise.

Full of incredibly sharp sentences and darkly comic moments.

Green Dot is for anyone who has fallen for the wrong person, remained in a relationship that is hurting them, witnessed a close friend going through that, or has simply made mistakes … It is so droll, bawdy, sexy, hilarious and good fun, everything you read thereafter seems dull in comparison.

Wildly funny… Fans of Fleabag will adore Green Dot.

Darkly funny… Gray’s writing is witty and sharp and 24-year-old Hera is a character you’ll root for.

Funny, whip-smart, and unbearably realistic, Gray nails the angst of being young, directionless, and desperate for an emotional anchor. You’ll tear through the pages, judging Hera’s decisions, and wi11ing her to recognise her value, before realising you’ve had green dot moments of your own. Genius.