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Hot Desk

⭐ ‘ROLLICKING AND ENTERTAINING’ People Magazine ⭐

⭐ ‘BY TURNS HILARIOUS, HEART-BREAKING, SATIRICAL, CUTTING AND FUNLaura Jane Williams, bestselling author of Our Stop ⭐


⭐ ‘FOR ANYONE WHO LOVES CURTIS SITTENFELD, NORA EPHRON, ALISON ESPACH, OR, WELL, ANYONE’ Joanna Rackoff, author of MY SALINGER YEAR ⭐


⭐ 'VIVID, HILARIOUS CHARACTERS AND DELICIOUS DRAMA’ Reader review ⭐


⭐ ‘THE SEXIEST, FUNNIEST BOOK PARTY YOU’LL BE INVITED TO ALL YEAR’ Grant Ginder, author of THE PEOPLE WE HATE AT THE WEDDING ⭐


⭐‘A CLEVER, HEARTFELT READ’ Reader review ⭐


⭐ ‘A FUNNY, DEEPLY WISE NOVEL THAT CAPTURES ALL THE THRILLS AND ACHES OF SETTING OUT IN THE WORLD’ Morgan Dick, author of The Favourite Daughter ⭐


Two rival editors. One career-making opportunity. One shared desk.


Rebecca Blume knows two things about Ben Heath: He’s a new editor at a rival publishing division, and he has terrible desk-sharing skills.


What starts as a battle of passive-aggressive Post-it notes escalates after the death of literary titan Edward David Adams, A.K.A. "the Lion," when Rebecca and Ben are thrown into a fierce competition to land his estate.

But when secrets about the Lion emerge, they are forced to ask--what role do they want to play in his legacy?


And is their Post-it war actually . . . flirting?


A funny, sexy, unexpectedly moving novel that weaves a contemporary workplace romance with a gripping historical narrative set in the 1980s New York publishing industry.

So charming and so accomplished, Hot Desk is by turns hilarious, heart-breaking, satirical, cutting and FUN. I absolutely loved it, and got way more than I bargained for in this dual-timeline tale of love and lust in publishing.

Laura Jane Williams, bestselling author of OUR STOP

About Laura Dickerman

Laura Dickerman has an MA in Fiction from NYU and an MA in English from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. She has taught high-school English at the Hopkins School, the Collegiate School for Boys, and Germantown Friends. She was an intern at The Paris Review many, many years ago. At her lowest point, she spent a month temping for her younger brother Colin at Grove/Atlantic where he was critical of her photocopying skills. She’s been a bookclub leader, tutor, and recipient of an NEH grant. She has lived in Vermont, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, Brussels, and currently in Atlanta with her husband. They have two grown daughters. Hot Desk is her first novel.
Details
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • ISBN: 9780241794128
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Price: £14.99
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