Si alguna vez trabajaron en una oficina seguramente se encontraron con algún Jamie, esa persona que busca quedar siempre bien, escalar lo más alto y rápido posible sin importar cuantas cabezas tiene que pisar en el camino. Super carismático y capaz de envolver a todos con discursos de muchas palabras que no dicen nada, en este caso le han conseguido llegar a ser uno de los socios de la compañía, pero ¿Qué pasa cuando la verdadera personalidad sale a la luz? Cuando un grupo de mujeres comienzan a charlar en una reunión se dan cuenta que no solo son cuestiones laborales sino que también pudo haberse excedido más de una vez insinuándose a sus empleadas. She isn’t really, of course. She even gets up at the same time as Piers Morgan, who, at 56, is 11 years her senior – usually ferociously early, around 5am, despite him having left morning TV months ago. She goes to bed at the same time, too, around 10pm. ‘Being married to an Old Person does that to you,’ she notes.

Creo que a pesar de que el libro nos muestra muchas situaciones en las que se ven involucrados todos los personajes, no había mucho que pensarle respecto a la persona que estaba tras la mayor parte de la venganza. With complex female characters spiralling out of control, Payday is tense, full of twists, and impossible to put down." - Helen Fielding Payday follows the fallout of one evening, when three women who don’t know each other very well end up exchanging confidences about their boss, Jamie Lawrence. Everybody in their firm seems to love Jamie except, it transpires, Jill, Nicole and Alex. They all recognise Jamie for what he is: an exploitative and misogynistic power-hunter, with no scruples about using women for his own end. And they agree that something must be done to bring about his fall from grace.And as the humiliations mount, it becomes clear that things are not always what they seem ... people lie; not just by stating untruths, but more insidiously, by stating one tiny kernel of truth and leaving out the rest, and not correcting others when they make the logical assumption. Debo admitir que las ideas que la autora quiere transmitir a veces están demasiado marcadas y se hacen un poco repetitivas. Su opinión sobre que las mujeres SIEMPRE están en desventaja laboral ante los hombres (con lo que no estoy 100% de acuerdo) queda repetida una y otra vez, y sus conceptos sobre la maternidad a veces me resultaban un poco ridículos e incorrectos (pero bueno, esto es SUPER objetivo porque cada persona es un mundo) pero si había algunas cosas que me resultaban al menos raras. Then Jamie is found dead. And suddenly they realise they have everything to lose, and everything to hide . . . Jamie’s dead. They found him this morning. The police want to talk to me. They’ll want to talk to you, too.’ The words came out in a rush. ‘And Nicole –’ she heard her own voice dip down ‘– I can’t get hold of Alex.’ Jill, Alex y Nicole son tres mujeres completamente diferentes entre sí, pero tienen algo en común: Jamie Lawrence, uno de los socios de la compañía en la que trabajan. Durante una fiesta de empresa, una conversación entre las tres mujeres pondrá de manifiesto cómo todas ellas han sido maltratadas y humilladas por Jamie, lo que les llevará a trazar un plan para acabar con él. A fin de cuentas ¿qué une más que el odio compartido?

Es una historia de venganza puesto que nuestras protagonistas tratarán de hacer ver al mundo, la verdadera personalidad de Jamie. Dejar en claro que, él es una persona manipuladora y que hará lo que sea para salirse con la suya.

People don’t tell you that chaos has a sound: a churning, crashing, intravenous beat. And it’s deafening. They don’t By the time she met Morgan, she was editing the popular Spy column in The Daily Telegraph, before becoming a senior features writer at the newspaper and later, a columnist and US editor-at-large. The one time her nose for a story failed her, she says, was when her husband invited her to join him in The Scarsdale pub in Kensington to meet an actress from a TV series they’d both enjoyed – Suits. Since Morgan is not a ladies’ man (‘that really would be a bit much on top of everything else’), Walden declined. ‘Why would I want to go and meet this actress Piers has been tweeting, I thought, so I said no, which was really very foolish of me.’ Prepare to be wrong-footed at every turn' CAZ FREAR Number One bestselling author of Sweet Little Lies She’s in the unusual position of writing, sometimes acerbically, about Hollywood, but also being part of it – a kind of latter-day Truman Capote. Isn’t it a bit awkward when she’s written something particularly sharp? ‘Honestly, I don’t think anyone in LA ever read anything I wrote in the UK. They barely knew who David Cameron was.’

Compulsively readable . . . fans of Liz Nugent's Unravelling Oliver will find much to enjoy in a novel that is provocatively complex as it explores the grey areas that exist between right and wrong. - IRISH TIMESThere was a muffled clunk at the other end of the line, followed by silence. Then another clunk, and a whisper: ‘How?’ Compulsively readable . . . fans of Liz Nugent's Unravelling Oliver will find much to enjoy in a novel that is provocatively complex as it explores the grey areas that exist between right and wrong. * IRISH TIMES * Todas ellas trabajan en la empresa inmobiliaria de BWL donde Jamie es el gerente y también el objetivo de estas mujeres. Walden most identifies with the damaged femme fatale character, though, with her long blonde hair and athletic Scandi beauty, she looks more like the wronged-but-not-quite-in-the-way-the-reader-initially-thinks wife, who, she says, she based on the models in the Baukjen catalogue. That’s the other notable thing about Walden – she is so secure in her intellectual powers, she’s not afraid to play up to her good looks. ‘I’ve always liked dresses with cut-out bits,’ she tells me later, when we’re discussing the merits of LA versus London style, ‘but I think it got out of hand after one stint there. My friends in London had to step in and confiscate some of my LA clothes.’ Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Where are you?’ Out loud, the words were startling. Imperious. And she wondered what the neighbours would think if they saw her sitting in her car, talking to herself. She wondered whether Stan, inside, had noticed her absence yet, and how much a human being could withstand before, like an overloaded electrical system, they cut out. Dystopian Fiction Books Everyone Should Read: Explore The Darker Side of Possible Worlds and Alternative FuturesFans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train will inhale this in one sitting, as I did." - Jessica Fellowes A medida que la noche (y los tragos) avanzan comienza a surgir un plan para que todos conozcan al verdadero Jamie, solo que algunas fueron solo verdades a medias y de pronto es muy tarde para parar todo. The amazing thing about her husband, Walden tells me, is that ‘the exterior and the interior of Piers are the same – it really is just yet more Piers. And it’s so, so refreshing to be with.’ This is a couple so in tune with one another that they’ve rounded each other’s edges into a comfortable comedy act. Walden naturally gets the best lines. Sharon Stone is another LA neighbour. ‘There was an awkward moment when she was showing us around her house and the three of us reached her bedroom,’ recalls Walden. ‘The thought bubble above Piers’s head read in bold caps: “I’ve fantasised about this moment many times, and at no point was my wife also in the room.”’