Lauren Berry spoke to Jude Brosnan about her new book Living the Dream. Living the Dream is a funny, satirical, sharp and honest look at modern British life from the perspective of two young women.
Lauren Berry is the founding editor of satirical feminist magazine KnockBack. She has been featured in the Guardian, Observer and Easy Living. Lauren makes a living in branding and journalism under a variety of guises, including the pseudonym Marie Berry. She lives and works in London. Living the Dream is her first novel.
'A timely satire on the everlasting problem of personal ambition versus paying the bills with some unexpected happy endings thrown in' - Stylist
'Bridget Jones diary for the millenial set . . . a fun, quirky office life novel . . . Both girls realise, as they say goodbye to their 20s, it's time to make some real moves and pursue their dreams' - InStyle
'Will strike a chord with anyone who who's survived their twenties . . . Berry paints a millennial world of zero-hours contracts, corporate buzzwords masquerading as inspirational quotes, and moving back in with your parents' - Red
'Very witty and incredibly relatable, with an ending that'll make you want to grab life by the horns' - Emma Gannon, author of Ctrl Alt Delete: How I Grew Up Online
'Lauren Berry is London's Lena Dunham and her whip-smart and endearingly cheeky debut, LIVING THE DREAM, is an entertaining and often laugh-out-loud-funny tale of young cosmopolitan women on the fringes of a glamorous city life that seems just out of reach. Readers, grab your best friends and read this book over cocktails' - Julia Fierro, author of The Gypsy Moth Summer and Cutting Teeth
