In office hours - Lucy Kellaway

A masterclass in office love...

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 twenty 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 pole-axing, heart-wrenching
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, the
strutting lunacy of CEOs, men's choice of
sandwiches, women's choice of affair underwear, taking credit for others' ideas,
the building and crashing of egos.
And the obsessive,
dangerous conduct of work colleagues who, in the grip of passion, break all the
rules.