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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Madeleine Gray was three degrees deep – a bachelor’s from Sydney, a master’s from Oxford, and a doctorate from Manchester – when she started writing what she had been studying for so long: fiction about contemporary young womanhood.

The title is a reference to the online status on the office instant messaging service through which their relationship plays out, and more symbolically perhaps to the confused nature of intimacy today, and what it means to exist online, and offline. While some of the criticisms of so-called “millennial women’s fiction” are worth examining, such as the genre’s overriding bias towards a certain kind of experience of young womanhood , the label has also been weaponised to dismiss an entire generation of writers and readers. Gray is ready to take such detractors on.“I think the eye roll to millennial women’s fiction is absolutely a symptom of misogyny and internalised misogyny,” Gray says.

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