The Glow - 'Jane Austen on steroids' (Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours)

Inner peace Glowing skin The perfect body How far would you go? Jane Dorner has two modes: PR Jane is twenty-five, breezy, clever in a non-threatening way and eager to sell you a feminist vibrator. Actual Jane is twenty-nine, drifting through mediocre workdays and lackluster dates while paralysed by her crushing mountain of overdue bills. Enter the impossibly gorgeous Cass, whom Jane discovers scrolling through Instagram - proprietor of a ''wellness retreat'' based out of a ramshackle country house that may or may not be giving off cult vibes. Suddenly Jane realizes she might have found the one ladder she can climb. But inner peace, shiny hair and glowing skin always comes at a price . . . ________ ''Jane Austen on steroids. It''s that sharp, that wicked, that laceratingly true'' Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours ''Money, influence, and perfect skin do not always make for good chemistry'' Elle ''A welcome dose of satire for anyone who''s been duped by yoni eggs, vagina scented candles, or TikTok tarot readers'' i-D

About the author

Jessie Gaynor's work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The New Yorker, WSJ. Magazine and elsewhere. She is a senior editor at Literary Hub and she has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Rona Jaffe fellow. She lives in Richmond, Virginia with her family.

Summary

A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning a grungy retreat centre and its charismatic leader into the hot new self-care brand in this darkly comedic, razor-sharp send-up of the wellness industry. For fans of Halle Butler's THE NEW ME, Abigail Bergstrom's WHAT A SHAME and Liane Moriaty's NINE PERFECT STRANGERS

Product details

• Authors: Jessie Gaynor
• Publisher: Tinder Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.06.2024
• EAN: 9781035404209
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3540420-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Satire, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Digital lifestyle, Humorous fiction, Social networking, Social media / social networking, Fiction: general and literary, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, c 2010 to c 2020, Satirical fiction and parodies, Cosmetics, Hair & Beauty