Everything You Ever Wanted by Luiza Sauma review – a digital detox too far

A woman’s midlife crisis leads her to a reality show on a desert planet. Then her problems really start

Luiza Sauma’s second novel puts a science-fiction spin on a well-worn narrative of early midlife crisis. Iris, a Londoner nearing 30, is wondering how much longer she can spend Thursday nights trying not to throw up on the bus home after drinking with colleagues from the branding agency where she works as a “digital innovation architect”.

There’s early fun poked at this lingo. “So many valuable learnings for us to take away and ponder,” Iris’s line manager says after a presentation on hashtags. Parsing emails about the need for “dynamic, holistic social”, Iris compares herself to a detective: “but instead of solving a murder, she was trying to work out what she did for a living”.

The real interest lies in Iris’s private psychodrama

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