Lizzie Vogel has a new job as a dental assistant which is not as glamorous as it sounds. At least it means getting away from her alcoholic, nymphomaniacal, novel-writing mother. But if Lizzie thinks being independent means sex with her boyfriend (he prefers bird-watching) or strict boundaries (her boss keeps using her loo), she's still got a lot more growing up to do. Winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.