None of This Is Serious: Catherine Prasifka

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Finn is amongst them, but he’s deeply engaged in conversation with a girl I don’t know and he doesn’t see me. None of This Is Serious is such a compelling novel, and Sophie is such a relatable character - reading her story felt like one of those meaningful and immersive conversations you can only have with a stranger at 3am in the toilets of a dingy club, all hearts laid bare.

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They’re playing a drinking game of quick-fire questions, where the only way to avoid answering is to respond with a question directed at someone else. There are deep grooves in the gravel driveway, channelling water to a puddle at the gate, which I jump over. None of this is Serious” is a perfectly contradictory title as the characters’ believe that nothing they do is of any consequence, thus they remain stuck and constantly hurt each other as they are not the superficial beings who can just put away everything they experience.I'm inhabited by a desperate fear that I'll miss something, to the point that I'm willing to waste my life waiting. Direct quotes only come from secondary characters, while Sophie’s dialogue is merged into her internal dialogue, with responses from other characters the only way to distinguish a thought from a statement. I put my phone away without liking the photo and grab the bowl of crisps Grace left out on the counter. There is a sexual abuse storyline that really captures the anger of so many discussions I’ve had with my friends.

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Martin neatly avoids this trap by permitting the rough edges in her voice to surface and by singing in an intimate, conversational tone. This point in life can be so confusing as you start to look for jobs and establish yourself in the world. I can't count the hours I've spent scrolling on Instagram just waiting for someone to post something, anything.

Desperate to digest the world around her, the double-edged sword of Sophie’s doomscrolling comes into view as the novel unfolds.