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For readers of THE COWS, SWEETBITTER or CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS - as well as for fans of FLEABAG or SEARCH PARTY - Caroline O´Donoghue´s debut is a gothic, darkly witty novel about sex, power, work and being a young woman in a man´s world.

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´I loved it. The writing is whipsmart and so witty. A fabulous and timely novel.´ Marian Keyes

´So brilliant ... Compelling and illuminating ... I highly recommend it.´ Dolly Alderton

´A future classic.´ Jane Casey

Jane Peters is an adrift twenty-something by day, and a world-weary agony aunt by night. But when an office party goes too far, Jane dissolves into the high-stakes world of being the Other Woman: a role she has the right advice for, but not the smarts to follow through on.

What starts out as a drunken mistake quickly unravels as Jane discovers that sex and power go hand-in-hand, and that it´s hard to keep your head when you´ve become someone else´s dirty little secret. And soon, her friendships, her sanity and even her life are put into jeopardy...

´Sharp, pithy and engaging´ Irish Times

´Brilliant´ Elle

´Deeply relatable and darkly comic ... It´ll have you nodding with familiarity, thinking, laughing - and crying - as you race towards the end´ Grazia

´I loved Promising Young Women. It´s like Bluebeard crossed with The Yellow Wallpaper neck-deep in zeitgeist. If Angela Carter was stuck in a soulless corporate job this would be the dark, delicious result´ Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti

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I loved it. The writing is whipsmart and so witty and what Caroline O´Donoghue says about how women interact with men and work is fascinating. A fabulous and timely novel Marian Keyes

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O´Donoghue, Caroline
Caroline O´Donoghue is an Irish author, journalist and host of the award-nominated podcast Sentimental Garbage. She has contributed to Grazia, Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Buzzfeed, Vice and The Times. On publication of her first novel, Promising Young Women, in 2018 she was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards´ Newcomer of the Year and the Kate O´Brien Award. Her next adult novel, Scenes of a Graphic Nature, will be published in 2020 followed by All Our Hidden Gifts, a novel for young adults published by Walker, in 2021. She was born in Cork but currently lives in London with her partner and a terrier with chronic eye problems.

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