Why this book exists
A focused place to understand what is happening
Ines does payroll for a haulage firm. She is fifty-one. Nineteen years, same office, a desk facing a wall on which somebody once put a poster about manual handling and nobody has ever taken it down. She processes the wages of eighty-four drivers. She is good at it in the way a person is good at something after nineteen years, which is to say it costs her nothing and gives her nothing. She hates it. Not dramatically. She would not use the word to anybody at work, and if you asked she would say it was fine, and by fine she would mean she has not thought about the question in years because thinking about it does not lead anywhere she can go. The reason she cannot leave is real, and everything depends on that.
The writing is designed to reduce shame, bring the underlying pattern into view and give you practical ways to respond without pretending that every life follows the same formula.
