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The Temp by Serena Mackesy (Paperback, 1999)

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ISBN-13: 9780099409878, 978-0099409878. We all know how it works: first you go to School, then you go to University, and then you enter Real Life. And that's the important bit. Happily Ever After. She's managed the university bit, but the job, the dough and the happily-ever-after seem harder than anybody ever told her.

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Invisible, Indispensable. In at the deep end. We all know how it works- first you go to School, then you go to University, and then you enter Real Life. And that's the important bit. Real Life is about achievement, recognition, choices. It's about a boss who trusts you, a wardrobe that suits you, friends who support you and a relationship that fulfils you. It`s a mobile phone, an expense account, a company car and a place to park it. Happily Ever After.Unforunately, Real Life isn't working that way for The Temp. She's managed the university bit, but the job, the dough and the happily-ever-after seem harder than anybody ever told her. Living in Stockwell while she moves through a series of jobs ranging from the horrifying mindless to the bemusingly witless to the simply extraordinary, she realises that something isn't right.Who cares about a boss who trusts you? She'd settle for a boss who knows her name. This can't be Real Life, can it?Building on the success of her INDEPENDENT column, Serena Mackesy has created a wonderfully witty, acerbic expose of office anthropology and a genuinely moving story about the early-twenties doldrums.