Checking Out - The hilarious and unputdownable international bestseller

Life is like a supermarket. Her name is Meryem, but you''d be surprised at how difficult people find that to spell. Meryem is twenty-five years old and has just started working at the offices of Supersaurio: the most important supermarket chain in the Canary Islands. Watched over by the chain''s benevolent blue dinosaur logo, Meryem contends with co-workers who don''t mean to sound sexist, but aren''t women just harder work than men? , a boss who seems determined to make Meryem''s life as miserable as possible, and Omar - smart, funny, very-senior-but-nevertheless-seems-like-a-normal-person Omar, who also happens to be devastatingly handsome. We follow Meryem as she makes the transition from intern, to temp, to arrive finally at the promised land of fixed employment - only to find that she might have left part of her soul behind.

About the author

Meryem El Mehdati (Rabat, 1991) studied Translation and Interpretation. She has been a private tutor, secretary, shop assistant, nanny, assistant director and internal comms specialist. Her debut novel Supersaurus was originally published in Spanish by Blackie Books in 2022. She has contributed to Vogue, SModa, La Provincia, El Salto and Igluu Magazine.

Product details

• Authors: Meryem El Mehdati, Meryem El Mehdati
• Assisted by: Sanches Julia (Translation)
• Publisher: Sceptre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.05.2025
• EAN: 9781399734011
• ISBN: 978-1-399-73401-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 218 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Humorous / General, Fiction in translation, Canary Islands, Humorous fiction, Fiction: general and literary, FICTION / World Literature / Spain / General