None of This is Serious by Catherine Prasifka
Published by Canongate 7th April 2022
Paperback ISBN 978183885529
Pages 288
A sharp and addictive modern debut set in Dublin, about female friendship and our obsession with being online. From an exciting new voice in Irish fiction.
Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They’ve got everything figured out, and Sophie feels left behind as they all start to go their separate ways. She’s overshadowed by her best friend Grace. She’s been in love with Finn for as long as she’s known him. And she’s about to meet Rory, who’s suddenly available to her online.
At a party, what was already unstable completely falls apart and Sophie finds herself obsessively scrolling social media, waiting for something (anything) to happen.
None of This is Serious is about the uncertainty and absurdity of being alive today. It’s about balancing the real world with the online, and the vulnerabilities in yourself, your relationships, your body. At its heart, this is a novel about friendships strong enough to withstand anything.
MY REVIEW
What I liked about None Of This Is Serious, is the fact it is bang up to date with our obsession with being online and about female friendship.
Teenagers and young adults who are addicted to their mobile phones, surfing the internet, being online on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook will enjoy this YA fiction story. However a lot of adults will enjoy this story too!
Catherine Prasifka’s debut novel is set in Dublin, who is the new voice in Irish fiction.
None Of This Is Serious, will appeal to fans of Sally Rooney’s Normal People, Rebecca Watson’s Little Scratch, Naoise Dolan Exciting Times and Emma Jane Unsworth’s Adults.
Glamour say about None Of This Is Serious. As we adapt to our increasingly online lives. Catherine Prasifka’s debut is the antidote we never knew we needed.
I would like to thank Canongate for sending me a finished copy and for very kindly inviting me to take part in this exciting debut book blog tour
ABOUT CATHERINE PRASIFKA
Catherine Prasifka was born in Dublin in 1996. She studied English Literature at Trinity College Dublin and has an MLitt in Fantasy from the University of Glasgow. She has an competed in both the European Debating Championships and the World Championships. She is obsessed with learning about how stories work and has ruined nearly all of her favourite books and movies by overanalysing the. She works in creative writing teacher in Dublin. None Of This Is Serious is her first novel.
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Bookread2day 
Nice review, this does sound very relevant to today’s obsession to social media.
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