Words and Nerds: Authors, books and literature.

40. Megan Goldin: The Escape Room, Wall St culture, sexism and characters' psychological decline.


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Megan Goldin chats to Dani about her new novel The Escape Room, Wal St culture, sexism and the writing process. Covering a lot of ground this episode, Megan chats about researching her novel, the psychological decline of characters, the writing process and more. An enjoyable conversation about the novel and how Megan was inspired to write.
In the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie and Sam are the ultimate high-flyers.
Ruthlessly ambitious, they make billion-dollar deals and live lives of outrageous luxury. Getting rich is all that matters, and they’ll do anything to get ahead.
When the four of them become trapped in an elevator escape room, things start to go horribly wrong.
They have to put aside their fierce office rivalries and work together to solve the clues that will release them.
But in the confines of the elevator the dark secrets of their team are laid bare. They are made to answer for profiting from a workplace where deception, intimidation and sexual harassment thrive.
Tempers fray and the escape room’s clues turn more and more ominous, leaving the four of them dangling on the precipice of disaster.
If they want to survive, they’ll have to solve one final puzzle: which one of them is a killer?
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