Hustle

If the rules don't suit you, make your own

Leonie has her own ideas about morality, and she behaves accordingly. She trashes her boss’s office, skips out of restaurants without paying the bill, and lies in job interviews – but she always has a good reason for it. When she runs out of money, she takes a job in Munich. But the city is too expensive for someone on a normal salary. When she meets three women who fund their own lifestyles in dubious ways, she is fascinated. Leonie soon comes up with her own business idea: people who have had their hearts broken pay her to carry out elaborate revenge plots. But after a while she starts to have doubts: how much money do you really need to lead a good life? And how much of a risk will she take to get it?

A clever, darkly funny novel about the precarious lives of young women in our modern consumer society

Female rage against social norms for women, and self-emancipation by unconventional means

“This book is the funniest answer to the question of how to survive in a capitalist system: who can I get to join my criminal gang of female friends?" - Mareike Fallwickl