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Laura Clark Is Away from Her Desk: The relatable and and hilarious coming-of-middle-age novel for anyone who feels frazzled and fed up. . . for fans of Alexandra Potter and Melanie Cantor
Helen Russell
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Humour
A relatable, sharp and hilarious coming-of-middle-age novel, perfect for fans of Confessions of a Forty- Something F**k-Up, Where'd You Go, Bernadette? and Fleishman Is in Trouble.
Who is Laura Clark?
To her colleagues, she's an invisible forty-something HR manager, emailing about lift repairs and quietly stocking the meeting-room snacks.
To her golf-obsessed husband and selfie-obsessed teenage daughter, she's the reliable constant - dinner on the table, mess cleaned away, needs met without thanks.
To her elderly mother, she's a patient ear for endless complaints.
Laura Clark is the woman everyone relies on. And barely anyone sees.
But one day Laura puts on her 'out of office' message - and doesn't come back. And soon, everyone's formerly ordered lives quickly begin to descend into all-out chaos.
Where has Laura gone?
Has something terrible happened to her?
Or has she - unthinkably - decided to finally give her own life the finger?
To find out, the people in her life must realise that, maybe, they never really knew Laura Clark at all . . .
Helen Russell
Helen Russell is a journalist and the bestselling author of The Year of Living Danishly and Leap Year.
Formerly editor of MarieClaire.co.uk, she now lives in Denmark and works as a Scandinavia correspondent for the Guardian, as well as writing a column on Denmark for the Telegraph and features for The Times, The Observer, Grazia, The Wall Street Journal and the Independent.
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