Published by Harper Collins UK, One More Chapter
Publication Date: 1st August 2024
Book Description:
There’s only one way to join their society. If someone leaves, or dies…
High-flying lawyer Sara O’Neil had it all; the career, the money, the prestige.
And then she jumped to her death.
Cassandra Harlow never expected to see her friend fall from their office rooftop. Someone knows what really happened. But the only people who might know the truth are a secret women-only society, Inside, whose promise is to fast-track your career.
But if Sara was part of it and they helped facilitate her rise to the top, could they also be the reason she came crashing down to earth?
My Thoughts:
This book literally starts and ends with jaw dropping situations. The meat in between those two events is equally as shocking but puts them into context, and I for one read the last sentence of the book with a buzz of a satisfied smile - does that make me a bad person? I'll let you decide when you've read the book.
The day to day workings of legal companies is outside of most people's knowledge base. Unless you've worked at one of them you're unlikely to have stepped behind the scenes. They are usually very well-presented, smart, shiny places with highly qualified, expensively dressed professional staff. But would you really want to be one of their number? It is well known that the hours are long, the pressures unbelievable - the need for things to be done in a timely manner with impeccable attention to detail is paramount. But what if you worked your backside off, only to be overlooked when it came to promotion purely because you were born the wrong gender? It's been happening for decades in the professions, the Old Boys' Network and Gentlemen's clubs ensuring that only the "right" people get the top jobs. In other words...Men Only. But all this is beginning to change, but only if you have access to The Clique. A mysterious, members-only society which helps the cream of the crop of women professionals get a Louboutin-clad toe into all the places and jobs that have previously only been offered to the men. But what is the price of success? Would you be willing to pay it?
This novel takes us on a nail-biting journey as Cass endeavours to find out what happened to her friend and colleague Sara O'Neil. She puts herself in ever more dangerous situations, even onto the radar of the local police as her investigations get closer to the truth. But who can she trust and will she reach the prize before someone decides she's gone far enough and takes her out of the game?
I thoroughly enjoyed this book which looks at the not-so-attractive underbelly of the corporate law world, and personally I think it has the best last sentence of a book that I've read in a long time. An excellent finale Miss Barnsley. Bravo!
My thanks to the publisher for the opportunity to read this book ahead of publication and, in doing so, discover another author whose work I will be exploring further.
About the Author:
Originally from the West Midlands, Rhiannon currently lives in London with her fiancé and her cat Salem. She's a corporate lawyer by day and writes after work and during weekends.
She is a Faber Academy Writing a Novel graduate and loves to write dark and twisty thrillers with a particular focus on women. When she's not writing, she can often be found reading or training with her cheerleading team.
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