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The Work Wife
The Work Wife: A Novel | Alison B. Hart
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A page-turner, an eye-opener, a heartbreaker, a delight, The Work Wife is that rare book that illuminates a world we never knew existed while also making us feel so much less alone in everyday life. Julia Phillips, author of National Book Award finalist Disappearing Earth The Work Wife is a bold and wholly satisfying novel about power, ambition, and the price women must often pay for their dreams. I gobbled it up. Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of All Adults Here Zanne Klein never planned to be a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty Ted and Holly Stabler. But a decade in at thirty-eight, that's exactly how she spends her days, earning six figures to make sure the movie mogul and his family have everything they could ever dream of and more. However, today is no ordinary day at the Stabler estate. Tonight, everyone who's anyone will be there for the Hollywood event of the season, and if the partys a success, that chief of staff job Zanne's been chasing may soon be hers. Which means she can buy a house, give her girlfriend the life she deserves, pay off her student loans. Nothing's going to get in Zannes waynot disgruntled staff, not a nosy reporter, not even a runaway hostess. But when Teds former business partner, Phoebe Lee, unexpectedly shows up right before go time, Zanne suddenly has a catastrophe unfolding before herone with explosive consequences. As the truth comes out and Zanne realizes how deeply entangled she's become in the Stablers' world, she must decide if the sacrifices she's made for the job are worth the moral price she has to pay. Told over the course of a single day and from three fierce perspectives, The Work Wife is a richly observed novel about female ambition, complicity, privilege and what happens when the brightest of stars aren't allowed to shine.
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I thought the story was well constructed, and very believable (at the end, the author explains why she wrote the book). I found myself empathizing with the 3 women protagonists. It also paints a picture of what power, money and ambition can skew your morals, perceptions and sense of entitlement.

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I really liked this novel and the message intrinsic to the story. Told from the point of view of three different women during the course of one day, we see how life has treated them. This is about the #metoo movement, the lives of the Hollywood super rich, and the ability of the powerful to squash the dreams of others when it is to their advantage. While the book has some humour, I most enjoyed the social commentary and would love a sequel. 4/5

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