The Mouse Marathon (Marshall Cavendish Classics)

Lee Jaylin, a 31-year-old workaholic Advertising Executive, wonders just what the point of it all is when her long-time friend and lover departs to travel the world, leaving her with the less than exhilarating task of promoting ‘designer condoms’.

With penetration, humour and roller-coaster momentum, Ovidia Yu subtly weaves an intricate web of hidden relationships with a highly comic series of events, in the process questioning the most cherished assumptions of Singapore’s high-pressure, breakneck-paced lifestyle. Is this really the rat race? Or just a long and lonely mouse marathon?

• Appeals to Gen X and Baby Boomers who grew up reading these authors, and Millennials and Gen Z seeking to explore Singapore’s literary heritage

• Fresh new design as part of the inaugural Marshall Cavendish Classics line-up