Then We Came to the End

<p><b>A HILARIOUS SATIRE THAT SHOWS OFFICE DYNAMICS AT THEIR MOST PETTY AND PROFOUND FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR, JOSHUA FERRIS<br></b><br>They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues.<br><br>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. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them.<br><br><b><i>Then We Came to the End</i> is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. It's the story of your life and mine.</b><br><br><b>*Joshua Ferris' mind-blowing new book, <i>A Calling for Charlie Barnes, </i>is available to pre-order now.*<br></b><br>'Very funny, intense and exhilarating . . . For the first time in fiction, it has truly captured the way we work' <b><i>The Times<br></i></b><br>'As dazzling as Franzen's The Corrections and as confident as Tartt's <i>The Secret History</i> . . . Exceptional, very funny' <b><i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br>'Slick, sophisticated and very funny, Ferris's cracking debut has modern Everyman fighting for his identity in an increasingly impersonal world' <b><i>Daily Mail</i></b></p> <p><b>A HILARIOUS SATIRE THAT SHOWS OFFICE DYNAMICS AT THEIR MOST PETTY AND PROFOUND FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR, JOSHUA FERRIS<br></b><br>They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues.<br><br>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. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them.<br><br><b><i>Then We Came to the End</i> is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. It's the story of your life and mine.</b><br><br><b>*Joshua Ferris' mind-blowing new book, <i>A Calling for Charlie Barnes, </i>is available to pre-order now.*<br></b><br>'Very funny, intense and exhilarating . . . For the first time in fiction, it has truly captured the way we work' <b><i>The Times<br></i></b><br>'As dazzling as Franzen's The Corrections and as confident as Tartt's <i>The Secret History</i> . . . Exceptional, very funny' <b><i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br>'Slick, sophisticated and very funny, Ferris's cracking debut has modern Everyman fighting for his identity in an increasingly impersonal world' <b><i>Daily Mail</i></b></p>