Promising Young Women Promising Young Women

Promising Young Women

‘So brilliant… I highly recommend it’ Dolly Alderton

    • 4.0 • 215 Ratings
    • £5.49

Publisher Description

THE RACHEL INCIDENT - Caroline O'Donoghue's bestselling new novel* - is out now

A darkly funny novel about being a young woman in a man's world

'Like Nora Ephron's Heartburn, Promising Young Women positively thrums with relatability and honesty' IRISH INDEPENDENT

Jane is twenty-six, freshly dumped, and on the bottom rung of a lacklustre marketing career. She is also moonlighting as a worldly agony aunt. When an office party goes too far, she drunkenly tries out another role: the Other Woman. As Jane's affair with her much older, married boss takes off, she disregards the advice her alter ego would give and dissolves into being someone else's dirty little secret. But she's not the only one at her company to have taken the wrong path. As she finds her own health and sanity disintegrating, can she discover the truth before another promising young woman is taken under his wing?

'Deeply relatable and darkly comic . . . It'll have you nodding with familiarity, thinking, laughing - and crying - as you race towards the end' GRAZIA

'So brilliant, I highly recommend it' DOLLY ALDERTON

'I loved it - whipsmart and so witty' MARIAN KEYES

'Sharp, pithy and engaging' IRISH TIMES

'Smart and spiky' METRO

An Post Irish Book Awards Shortlisted - Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year

*The Rachel Incident was a #2 bestseller in Ireland in June 2023

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
7 June
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Little, Brown Book Group
SIZE
2
MB

Customer Reviews

Melifiscent ,

Gripping

A throughly gripping read. The subject matter is unnerving in its startlingly accurate observation of women, and all of the ugliness that has to be endured just for being so. We all have at least a little of Jane inside us to some degree. You won’t be able to help but champion her survival.

Hozza1982 ,

Like reading my own biography.

Unsettling and startlingly honest. An unflinching look at women in the workplace and what drives us into the arms of destructive and damaging men.

Hwgirl ,

Painfully relevant, while also being very readable and funny

Any woman who has worked in an office/had an ill-judged romance/questioned their career and future will recognise elements of this book. Often very funny, but also painful in how accurately it represents the common every day sexism found in many workplaces. It absolutely captures the zeitgeist, while also being extremely readable - I finished it in a day, which is not usual for me!

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