Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris

What the cover says:
"They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues.
There's Chris Yop, who is clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl Garbedian, secretly taking someone else's medication; Marcia Dwyer, whose hair is stuck in the eighties; and Benny, who's just - well, just Benny. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water-cooler moments, meetings, flirtation and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them.
Then We Came to the End is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. It's the story of your life, and mine."

A huge great disappointment. Described as 'The Comedy Debut of the Year' yet I didn't find a single sentence even remotely amusing. And as for being a story that everyone can relate to, it bore no resemblance to any office I've ever worked in. I was hoping for an amusing day-to-day account of normal office life, where this  was actually a tale of a firm going through the process of 'downsizing', when if it had been a real company and these the real employees it would have just needed to be closed down for everyone's sake.

3/10