Ever had one of those moments when everything that you accept as normal suddenly seems totally insane? TODAY, is like any other mind-numbingly boring, soul-destroying day at the office. That is, except for Pamela Hoare, Charlie Cockburn, and that weird junior accountant no-one has noticed before. TODAY, slutty secretary, Pamela Hoare, is about to put the finishing touches to her plan to blackmail her sexually repressed boss, Mr Rupen Patel, and make him her bitch. TODAY, Charlie Cockburn, coked-up, hung-over and horny as hell, realises just how close he is to losing his job and decides to tell Mr Patel to stick it up his arse. AND THEN there is that junior accountant - just so you know, his name is Lucas Swink - today, he will blow up a window and leap out of the office block in an attempt to awaken the masses. Hoare, Cockburn and Swink are just some of the desperate souls you'll follow in this breakthrough debut novel that takes an unflinching look at London's cubicle-driven society. Let Rude Awakening scratch away at the shit-stained window of your perceptions and show you that everyone, from high-rolling businessmen to desperate barmaids, wants something more but doesn't know how to get it.