![]() ![]() ![]() For the first time in fiction, it has truly captured the way we work' The Times *Joshua Ferris' mind-blowing new book, A Calling for Charlie Barnes, is available to pre-order now.* Then We Came to the End is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them. There's Chris, clinging to his ergonomic chair Lynn, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about Carl, secretly taking someone else's medication Marcia, whose hair is stuck in the eighties and Benny, who's just - well, just Benny. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues. They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. A HILARIOUS SATIRE THAT SHOWS OFFICE DYNAMICS AT THEIR MOST PETTY AND PROFOUND FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR, JOSHUA FERRIS ![]()
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