IT'S A MAN'S WORLD

It's a Man's World

Polly Courtney

UK rights: HarperCollins (Avon)

All other rights available

'Not your average chick lit' - Closer Magazine

This is women’s fiction with bite! Join Alexa as she battles her way through the chauvinistic lads' mag industry and makes real progress - it might be a man’s world, but it takes a woman to run it.

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em…

Alexa Harris loves a challenge.  So when she’s asked to head up Senate Media’s lads’ mag, Banter, she doesn’t need much persuasion.

But life on the all-male editorial team proves harder than Alexa had imagined – and not just because of her ambitious targets. As Alexa battles with a testosterone-fuelled office, she decides to play the boys at their own game.

As success hits, she’s forced to look at who she has become. Has she forfeited her principles in return for praise from the lads? And what price will there be to pay?

An addictive page turner with a hard-hitting meaning.

Polly Courtney was brought up in London after a brief period in the United States.  At sixteen she transferred to an all-boys grammar school, a move which was to stand her in good stead for the years to come.  She spent twelve months testing engines and gearboxes at an automotive consultancy in Sussex, then went on to obtain a double first in Engineering from Cambridge. Along with many of her “high flying” peers, she was lured to the City by the promise of a lucrative, fast-paced career in the exciting world of high finance.  What she discovered was something very different.

As soon as she set foot in the Square Mile, Polly realised that there was something to shout about.  Being someone who doesn't hold back, she decided to write about how it really is for young graduates in the City, hence her first novel, Golden Handcuffs.  She started writing in her first (and only) year at Merrill Lynch and quickly realised that words rather than numbers were where her real talent lay.  Having quit banking, she is now working in strategy consulting as well as writing.  She also devotes considerable time to her semi-professional all-girl string quartet, No Strings Attached, and to playing with a women's football team.

www.pollycourtney.com