# The Odyssey

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- Book: [The Odyssey](https://www.bookquiver.com/lara-williams/the-odyssey) ([The Odyssey.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lara-williams/the-odyssey.md))
- Authors: [Lara Williams](https://www.bookquiver.com/lara-williams)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 5 h 34 min
- ISBN: 978-02-4199-677-5
- Published: 2022-04-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 5 h 34 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. From the prize-winning author of Supper Club comes a wickedly funny and slyly poignant new satire on modern life - for fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Convenience Store Woman, and J. G. Ballard's High Rise Meet Ingrid. She works on a gargantuan luxury cruise liner, where she spends her days reorganizing the merchandise and waiting for long-term guests to drop dead in the changing rooms. On her days off, she disembarks from the ship and gets blind drunk on whatever the local alcohol is. It's not a bad life. And it distracts her from thinking about the other life she left behind five years ago. Until one day she is selected for the employee mentorship scheme - an initiative run by the ship's mysterious captain and self-anointed lifestyle guru, Keith, who pushes Ingrid further than she thought possible. But sooner or later, she will have to ask herself: how far is too far? Utterly original, mischievous and thought-provoking, The Odyssey is a merciless takedown of consumer capitalism and our anxious, ill-fated quests for something to believe in. And as its title suggests, it is a voyage that will eventually lead its unlikely heroine all the way home. Though she'd do almost anything to avoid getting there... © Lara Williams 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022