Sunday, May 8, 2011

Three Great Novels: Career Girls, The Movie, Tall Poppies

Three Great Novels: Career Girls; the Movie; Tall Poppies 
by Louise Bagshawe 

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 075285268X 

Career Girl
Rowena Gordon, an upper-class young English girl, and Topaz Rossi, a feisty American, meet and become the best of friends at Oxford. Both are determined to succeed in their chosen careers - Topaz as a journalist and Rowena as a scout for the music industry. But their friendship turns to rivalry when they fall out over a man . . . From then on, Rowena and Topaz are determined to do each other down, as they battle against each other in both their personal and private lives. Until there is an unexpected chance for reconciliation .

The Movie
Eleanor Marshall, Roxana Felix and Megan Silver are from very different worlds. But they all have something the other could use. Eleanor Marshall, just made president of Artemis studios, is one of the most powerful women in Hollywood. When she’s offered the chance to make a movie with two sure-fire stars, one of them queen-of-the-catwalk Roxanna Felix, she knows it’s an opportunity too good to miss. Roxana may be a model rather than an actress, known for her devastating beauty and acid tongue, but she has the on-screen magnetism Eleanor needs. And when Megan Silver, waitress and struggling writer, appears with a dynamite script, it looks like they have all the ingredients for a runaway success...

Tall Poppies
With her public school education, trust fund and castle for a family home, Elizabeth Savage has seemingly led a privileged life. But the one thing she really wants, the chance to prove herself in the world of work, is the one thing she can’t get. New Yorker Nina Roth, on the other hand, was born the wrong side of the tracks, and it’s sheer grit and determination that have made her the successful career woman she is. Set on making a better life for herself, she’s done what needed to be done. But has she gone one step too far? Two women from two different worlds, but these tall poppies have much more in common than they think.  And, as both will find, the trouble with being a tall poppy is people will try and cut you down to size... 

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