"Fierce funny and unflinching."- Coco Mellors New York Times bestselling author of Blue
Sisters A richly drawn unsettling and wickedly funny story of envy and ambition set
against the glamor and privilege of media and high society in New York City at its height. At
the turn of the millennium Editorial Assistant Clodagh "Clo" Harmon wants nothing more than
to rise through the ranks at the world's most prestigious fashion magazine. There's just one
problem: she doesn't have the right pedigree. Instead Clo is a "workhorse" surrounded by
beautiful wealthy impossibly well-connected "show horses" who get ahead without effort
including her beguiling cubicle-mate Davis Lawrence the daughter of a beloved but fading
Broadway actress. Harry Wood Davis's boarding school classmate and a reporter with visions of
his own media empire might be Clo's ally in gaming the system-or he might be the only thing
standing between Clo and her rightful place at the top. In a career punctuated by moments of
high absurdity sudden windfalls and devastating reversals of fortune Clo wades across
boundaries taking ever greater and more dangerous risks to become the important person she
wants to be within the confines of a world where female ambition remains cloaked. But who
really is Clo underneath all the borrowed designer clothes and studied manners-and who are we
if we share her desires? Hilariously observant and insightful Workhorse is a brilliant
page-turner about what it means to be in thrall to wealth beauty and influence and the
outrageous sacrifices women must make for the sake of success.
