Workhorse (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781250360083)

A rich, unsettling and hilariously incisive 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?

Wickedly funny 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.

Author: Caroline Palmer
ISBN-10: 1250360080
ISBN-13: 9781250360083
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Language: English
Published: 05/13/2025
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d