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In Office Hours

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Stella Bradberry and Bella Chambers work for Atlantic Energy, a global oil company in London. Bella is pretty, a single mother who dropped out of college and is doomed to work as an invisible assistant to a series of men of half her intelligence. Stella is twenty years older, about to get a seat on the board, and is the original no-glass-ceiling, high-achieving, multitasking mother of two. Everyone admires her: she's so straightforward and sensible. So what possesses both women to embark on affairs with men they wouldn't have looked twice at outside the office?

Smart, funny, moving, and agonizing, In Office Hours holds up a mirror to modern corporate life. It's all here—the lies and sabotage and the obsessive, dangerous conduct of work colleagues who, in the grip of passion, break all the rules.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      The challenge for narrator Alison Reid is to maintain a distinct voice for this novel's two female protagonists who work at the same London oil company. Both are involved in problematic relationships at work: Bella is involved with her boss, James, and married executive Stella is infatuated by her young Welsh trainee, Rhys. Overcoming the author's rhyming "Bella-Stella" challenge, Reid keeps the women distinct and adeptly conveys their obsessive loss of self-control, albeit with suitable British reserve. For the love interests, Reid brings a consistent accent to Rhys and has fun with the emotionally disconnected James, who is overwhelmed by desire one minute and in clipped office mode the next. A.B. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 13, 2010
      Two women on other sides of a generational divide fall into ill-advised workplace romances in British business journalist Kellaway's latest water-cooler romp (after The Real Office). Twenty-something single mother Bella and married 40-something exec Stella slide down the slippery slope from self-deluded temptation ("it's just a fantasy," says Bella of her attraction to her balding, philandering boss, James) to slow dancing around the photocopier, as Stella dreams she does with her boyish, working-class Welsh crush. Of course, disaster looms for all involved, and while the stories sometimes take on the predestined feel of case studies, Kellaway manages a consistently funny tone as her characters handle romantic fallout in generation-appropriate fashion and confirm what they already know: too often, it's the woman who pays the price.

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