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'Sydney, 1963. Three young women are taking on the world of advertising. Don Draper wouldn't stand a chance. And Marion knows ... she was there!
'Early sixties in Sydney. Women wear princess-line dresses, edge-to-edge duster coats, gloves, perfectly matched handbags and shoes and seamed stockings. They are defined by the vital statistics of their bust, waist and hip measurements and if they are over thirty they re over the hill. Kings Cross is bohemian, Paddington is pre-gentrified and the crowd at Beppi s and the Ozone charge their boozy lunches to job numbers.
'At the advertising agency Bofinger Adams Rawson & Keane, two talented women hold important creative roles. One, Bea, is a copywriter. The other, Desi, is a television producer. Because they are successful in their work and rewarded by it, few of their colleagues know how adept they are at mismanaging their private lives.
'Anxious to join this starred twosome is a young secretary named Stella, who embodies all the qualities for success ambition, dedication, energy, efficiency except creative talent. In its absence she relies on stealth, flattery and plagiarism, to walk, in her Jane Debster toe-peepers, all over the others in realising her ambition.
'She succeeds. At least, for a while ...' (From the publisher's website.)
Notes
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Briefly reviewed in the Sunday Age (18 December 2011): M 15.
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Other Formats
- Large print.
- Braille.
Works about this Work
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Take Three : Chick Lit
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 15 January 2012; (p. 26)
— Review of The Freudian Slip 2011 single work novel -
Off the Shelf : Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 7 January 2012; (p. 28)
— Review of The Freudian Slip 2011 single work novel -
Mad Women's Class Act Makes Racy Copy
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23-25 December 2011; (p. 23)
— Review of The Freudian Slip 2011 single work novel
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Mad Women's Class Act Makes Racy Copy
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23-25 December 2011; (p. 23)
— Review of The Freudian Slip 2011 single work novel -
Off the Shelf : Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 7 January 2012; (p. 28)
— Review of The Freudian Slip 2011 single work novel -
Take Three : Chick Lit
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 15 January 2012; (p. 26)
— Review of The Freudian Slip 2011 single work novel
Awards
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1963