In Office Hours
  • Published: 13 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141039886
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $41.99
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In Office Hours

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28 Jun 2010
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13 Apr 2011
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A dazzlingly clever, brilliantly funny and truly moving novel about the things modern women subject themselves to at work

Stella Bradberry and Bella Chambers work at the same high-achieving, high-end London firm. Bella is a pretty, young single mum, but an assistant to men with half her smarts. Stella, a go-getting, multi-tasking mother of two, has a seat on the board firmly in her sights.

But then these two sharp, intelligent women do something rash: they embark on affairs with male colleagues they wouldn't look twice at outside work. Suddenly, both are telling lies to friends, loved ones and workmates. In the grip of passions they cannot, nor wish to, control, they carelessly break all the rules, sabotaging friendships and careers.

They've risked their livelihoods for love. But ending an affair is always harder than beginning one . . .
  • Published: 13 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141039886
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $41.99
Categories:

About the author

Lucy Kellaway

Lucy Kellaway is an English writer and satirist. For over twenty years, she has been an observer of the peculiarities of corporate culture in her column for the Financial Times, and she also presented Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life for BBC Radio 4.

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Praise for In Office Hours

Whip-smart and blisteringly observant. Funny, truthful and cracking satire

Sunday Times

A must-pack summer read. Funny, frank and shrewd, this comic novel is always on the money

Independent

A funny and moving tale of two affairs...don't miss

Grazia

Kellaway is very funny and acutely observant about workplace politics - the office here is a hotbed of passion and betrayal

The Times

I didn't want to put it down

Financial Times

A fast-moving novel about office affairs. The unusual feature of Kellaway's writing is the witty way in which she challenges established mores

Daily Telegraph

Astute

Marie Claire

Acutely observed

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