Careering

careering (verb)

1. working endlessly for a job you used to love and now resent entirely

2. moving in a way that feels out of control

Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine.

Infinite internships later, Imogen dreams of any job.

Writing her blog around double shifts at the pub is neither fulfilling her creatively nor paying the bills.

Harri might just be Imogen’s fairy godmother.

She’s moving from the glossy pages of Panache magazine to launch a fierce feminist site, The Know.

And she thinks Imogen’s most outrageous sexual content will help generate the clicks she needs.

But neither woman is aware of the crucial thing they have in common.

Harri, at the other end of her career, has also been bitten and betrayed by the industry she has given herself to.

Will she wake up to the way she’s being exploited before her protege realises that not everything is copy?

Can either woman reconcile their love for work with the fact that work will never love them back?

Or is a chaotic rebellion calling…

‘The zeitgeisty read tackles the myth of the girl boss, with feelings of imposter syndrome, burnout and comparison rife throughout. Though entertaining – you can’t help but cringe at some of the situations Imogen finds herself in – the novel takes a hard look at the very real challenges women still face in the workplace today. With the events of the last two years making many question what really matters in life, Buchanan leaves you with the reminder that whether you love or loathe your job, it doesn’t define who you are or put a value on your self-worth’ – Stylist

‘So perceptive and wise about the media, privilege, the differing but equally troubling pressures that women of all ages face, while still being moving, laugh out loud funny, and inspiring. I loved it’ – Louise O’Neill, author of Idol