Edition Ovidia | 2020

This is a German version of the novel “What I Wanted to Tell You”: Monika talks about herself in a funny, entertaining, and satirical way: she is intelligent, talkative, passionate, astute, and quick-witted, but none of these qualities are of any help to her in her job as an executive secretary in a small company run by an overconfident boss. It’s hardly surprising that Monika is also unlucky in love – even with her latest flame, a Chinese man, the relationship is anything but average.

What makes this book, written with great humor and biting candor, so special is that it is written in the form of a diary, with the protagonist Monika D. commenting on everything in direct speech, as if the reader were sitting next to her.