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Careering

By: Daisy Buchanan
Narrated by: Celine Buckens, Jo Hartley
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Publisher's summary

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 protégé 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...

Hilarious and unflinchingly honest, Careering takes a hard look at the often toxic relationship working women have with their dream jobs.

©2022 Daisy Buchanan (P)2022 Hachette Audio UK

Critic reviews

"We are so ready for this book. Exploring the exhausting push-pull of trying to pin down a career you love but that doesn't love you back, Buchanan's book is set to capture the zeitgeist as so many of us question where we're at." (Stylist)

"Daisy brings characters to life like no other writer." (Lucy Vine, author of Hot Mess)

"Daisy is an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction." (Hannah Beckerman)

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The tale of two women, struggling through their very stressful writing career and to live a life. Imogen is a writer, she has a personal sex blog and then is hired to write unrealistic attractive sex content for a magazine. She works under Harri. The dual POVs were interesting. I do see the need for adult content but the orgy in it was a huge put off for me.

Sans the sexual content the book conveyed excellent idea around the 'grinding' work culture and burn out. Though landing in the dream job, the reality of the stress along with the 'dream job' was very much portrayed and I loved it.

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