Checking Out, 9781399734011
Hardcover
Benevolent dinosaur, sexist colleagues: a young woman’s hilarious supermarket hell.

Checking Out

the hilarious and unputdownable international bestseller

$57.81

  • Hardcover

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    11 August 2025

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Summary

Checking Out: A Supermarket Survival Guide

‘So biting and refreshingly honest that the real world feels just a little more ridiculous by comparison’

Jinwoo Chong, author of *Flux*

‘Honest, intelligent and funny’

Andrea Abreu, author of *Dogs of Summer*

Life is like a supermarket.

Her name is Meryem, but you’d be surprised at how difficult people find that to spell. Me…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781399734011
ISBN-10:1399734016
Author:Meryem El Mehdati, Julia Sanches
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Sceptre
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:11 August 2025
Weight:420g
Dimensions:218mm x 142mm x 32mm
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Critics Review

The bleakly hilarious Meryem El Mehdati’s Checking Out renders a satire of youth, work, and ordinary life so biting and refreshingly honest that the real world feels just a little more ridiculous by comparison. I tore through this book – Jinwoo Chong, author of Flux

About The Author

Meryem El Mehdati

Meryem El Mehdati (Rabat, 1991) studied Translation and Interpretation. She has been a private tutor, secretary, shop assistant, nanny, assistant director and internal comms specialist. Her debut novel Supersaurus was originally published in Spanish by Blackie Books in 2022. She has contributed to Vogue, SModa, La Provincia, El Salto and Igluu Magazine.

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