E Squared - Couverture souple

In this frequently alarming world of ours, here is a novel that dares to tackle the important questions.

What happens when you reply to spam?

Will making a tit of yourself on YouTube get you on Big Brother?

eBay: can selling your boss's office furniture pay off those tricky gambling debts? Tagging teenagers: the way forward for responsible parents?

Text: a suitable medium for a suicide note?

Is it OK for children to smoke if the cigarettes are really tiny?

And how do you type those stupid frog accents?

Told entirely in emails, texts and blogs, e2 visits Meerkat360, an ad agency so cutting-edge it employs a hairdresser. With a cast of web-enabled screw-ups, cads and halfwits, it is a savagely funny insight into the hearts, minds and inboxes of the world's most dysfunctional office.

Out of the ashes of doomed ad agency Miller Shanks has risen Meerkat 360, a very 21st century workplace. Staff include David Crutton, an MD with the worst email signature in history; Milton Keane, a definitely-straight PA with a yearning for reality tv fame; Liam O'Keefe, a creative with an online gambling addiction who may be linked with the contents of the stationery cupboard appearing on eBay; and Harvey Harvey, a creative who politely replies to pornographic spam and who might just have met his future wife online - a rich Nigerian princess in deep trouble...

Told entirely via emails, texts, webchat and blogs, the long-awaited follow up to E is a hilariously funny insight into the hearts, minds and inboxes of the world's most engagingly dysfunctional ad agency.