In Office Hours, Lucy Kellaway
In Office Hours, Lucy Kellaway
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In Office Hours

Author: Lucy Kellaway

Narrator: Alison Reid

Unabridged: 11 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2011

Categories: Fiction, Women

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: she's so straightforward and sensible. So what possesses both women to embark on affairs with men they wouldn't have looked twice at outside the office?Smart, funny, moving, and agonizing, In Office Hours holds up a mirror to modern corporate life. It's all here—the lies and sabotage and the obsessive, dangerous conduct of work colleagues who, in the grip of passion, break all the rules.

About Lucy Kellaway

Lucy Kellaway is the management columnist at London’s Financial Times. She has become well known for her pointed commentaries on the limitations of modern corporate culture and was named Columnist of the Year at the 2006 British Press Awards.

About Alison Reid

Alison Reid trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Since graduation, she has performed regularly on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing such roles as Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Denman in Family Reunion, Procne and Semele in Tales of Ovid, and Margery in Warwickshire Testimony. Her television credits include Dalziel and Pascoe and Neverwhere, and she also appeared in the BBC film The Heart of Me. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Richard

I saw IN OFFICE HOURS being heavily advertised on the Tube during a recent trip to London and, being the author of an office-based, relationship-focused novel myself, felt compelled to pick it up. Based on the (British paperback) cover design, I expected it might be something of a chick-lit romp in......more

Goodreads review by Valentina

Horrible people in horrible relationships.......more

Goodreads review by Tara

My thoughts: This book is a Romance..kinda chick lit, but not a romance in the sense of the bodice-ripping-mass-market books you see at the grocery store. The romance is the main focus in the book, even though it gives the appearance of being chick lit. However, it's not a very light-hearted book - i......more

Goodreads review by Joemmama

This is really the stories of two women, Stella, married to a successful documentary filmmaker, with children, middle aged and at the top of her game, and Bella, a young, single mother, doomed to be an assistant at the bottom rung of the success ladder. They both work for a major British Energy Comp......more

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