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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 fulfills you It's a mobile phone an expense account a company car and a place to park it Happily Ever After Unfortunately 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 --> Genre: Literary Fiction Humour