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Workhorse: A Novel | Caroline Palmer
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"Fierce, funny and unflinching."Coco Mellors, New York Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters A richly drawn, unsettling, and wickedly funny story of envy and ambition set against the glamor and privilege of media and high society in New York City at its height. At the turn of the millennium, Editorial Assistant Clodagh Clo Harmon wants nothing more than to rise through the ranks at the worlds most prestigious fashion magazine. Theres just one problem: she doesnt have the right pedigree. Instead, Clo is a workhorse surrounded by beautiful, wealthy, impossibly well-connected show horses who get ahead without effort, including her beguiling cubicle-mate, Davis Lawrence, the daughter of a beloved but fading Broadway actress. Harry Wood, Daviss boarding school classmate and a reporter with visions of his own media empire, might be Clos ally in gaming the systemor he might be the only thing standing between Clo and her rightful place at the top. In a career punctuated by moments of high absurdity, sudden windfalls, and devastating reversals of fortune, Clo wades across boundaries, taking ever greater and more dangerous risks to become the important person she wants to be within the confines of a world where female ambition remains cloaked. But who really is Clo underneath all the borrowed designer clothes and studied mannersand who are we if we share her desires? Hilariously observant and insightful, Workhorse is a brilliant page-turner about what it means to be in thrall to wealth, beauty, and influence, and the outrageous sacrifices women must make for the sake of success.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Whoo—what a ride. Story of a “workhorse” editorial assistant at a fancy fashion magazine at the beginning of the 21st century who struggles to manage her envy of the beautiful “show horse” girls from rich and famous families with the “right” pedigrees and the increasingly wild and unhinged decisions she makes to gain and keep a foothold in that world and how she reckons with who she becomes.

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