In Office Hours - Softcover

Lucy Kellaway

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905490399 ISBN 13: 9781905490394

Publisher: Penguin Fig Tree, 2010

Synopsis

Stella Bradberry and Bella Chambers work for Atlantic Energy, a global oil company in London. Bella is pretty, a single mother who dropped out of college and is doomed to work as an invisible assistant to a series of men of half her intelligence. Stella is twenty years older, about to get a seat on the board, and is the original no-glass-ceiling, high-achieving, multitasking mother of two. Everyone admires her: shes so straightforward and sensible. So what possesses both women to embark on affairs with men they wouldnt have looked twice at outside the office? Smart, funny, moving, and agonizing, In Office Hours holds up a mirror to modern corporate life. Its all herethe lies and sabotage and the obsessive, dangerous conduct of work colleagues who, in the grip of passion, break all the rules.

About this title

About the Author:

Lucy Kellaway: Lucy Kellaway is the management columnist at the Financial Times. In addition she has worked as energy correspondent, Brussels correspondent, a Lex writer, and interviewer of business people and celebrities. She is a regular commentator on the BBC World Service Daily Business Program called Business Daily.

From Booklist:

Office romance is alive and well at Atlantic Energy, a global oil company based in London. Although petroleum products are no longer the fuel du jour, romantic adventures are enjoying a prominent place on the corporate agenda. Take Stella Bradberry, for example. One of the few female executives at AE, she is quickly moving up the corporate ladder. Despite a cushy salary, a husband of 20 years, and two children, she finds herself embroiled in a passionate affair with her 20-year-old assistant, Rhys. And then there is Bella Chambers, a young single mother who works as a personal assistant at the company and is having an affair with her high-stakes-player boss, James. As these relationships move toward their inevitable conclusions, readers are given a front-row seat to the urgent e-mails, the frantic text messages, and the growing anxiety of two hardworking women who have lost control over their lives and themselves. In Office Hours is a smart, funny, head-shaking look at the shady side of the corporate street and the behavior of those who inhabit it. --Carol Gladstein

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Fig Tree
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1905490399
• ISBN 13: 9781905490394
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 343