There's No Such Thing As an Easy Job

Follows the narrator through five short-term contract jobs, specifically chosen to be undemanding after she quit her career through burnout. Apart from the stories being genuinely quite charming, I think they also offer an interesting reflection of the nature of our relationship with work and with colleagues. The writing style felt somehow a little flat, though I thought that could be read as portraying the narrator's likely mood. Anyway, I really enjoyed it and I'm only sorry there don't seem to be any more of the author's books available in English.

The unnamed protagonist’s struggles with burnout, and yet her urges to self-sabotage by forming just the types of connections and doing just the kind of over-work that got her here in the first place… extremely relatable. And there are so many detailed descriptions of delicious food…