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Title: In Office Hours
Author: Lucy Kellaway
Narrator: Alison Reid
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-19-15
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Stella Bradberry and Bella Chambers work for Atlantic Energy, a global oil company in London. Bella is a pretty 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 20 years older, about to get a seat on the board, and is the original no-glass-ceiling, high-achieving, multi-tasking 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.
Members Reviews:
What I particularly liked was how the book reflected the many facets of ...
Couldn't put this book down. What I particularly liked was how the book reflected the many facets of the modern workplace: office politics, manager-subordinate relationships, power, office communications, diversity and affairs between co-workers. The book does an excellent job in exploring the conflicts arising from the pursuit of adventure, fulfilment and happiness from romantic relationships in the office, while at the same time not putting careers (and marriages) in jeopardy.
What Happens in the Boardroom Stays In the Boardroom--not!
I loved this book. Everything about it: cover to ending. I started reading it yesterday, put it down to go to bed last night and got up twice during the night to keep reading. At times it had a "Working Girl" feel about it, maybe the environment of office politics and secret affairs. At one point I thought the ending might be predictable, but I was happily surprised to see that it wasn't. I highly recommend it!
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It kept my interest to the end, but not my enthusiasm. Predictable ending. I felt no sympathy or empathy for the plight of any of these characters.
There is no free ride in life but this book takes you on an interesting trip
At some point your misdeeds do catch up to you and regardless of whether you try to cover them up someone will find out. Office relationships at best are tricky when unmarried men and women become involved but when there are spouses involved and nosey co-workers it is not going to end well.
This book is told from the perspective of Stella a rising star in the company who can't balance her work and personal life. She blames each one for taking her away from the other and punishes everyone including herself for her failures. But when she enters into a relationship with her intern the situation goes from bad to ballistic. He is young and feels that she now owes him and he does not want love as a payment.
The other voice you hear is Bella a single mom who did believe she was balancing everything and that her promotions were due to her skill not her ability to keep the boss satisfied in bed. She loved him and he deceived her and while she thinks throwing everything off for him is worth it he does not.
You absolutely can have it all you just can't have it all at the same time, something has to give in your life and filling the void with a relationship that is nonsustainable never goes well for anyone. Stella and Bella are great characters and strong women who know when to walk away but still have trouble saying no.
