PR
PR
Victoria Aitken
Currently on UK submission
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Armed with qualifications in science which she is no longer inspired to use and still living at home with her eccentric mother Fleur and her mother's boyfriend Henry, Cindy needs to work out what to do with her life.She knows that she wants to "make it" - but doing what?Henry comes to the rescue and offers her a job in one of his many companies, PR agency Freedom.
At Freedom, Cindy graduates from pr-ing insect spray to helping to win the glamorous Tease Lipstick account.She gets to know her two colleagues, the glamorous, man-eating Margarita and the rather frosty Sara whose approach to life is to do everything by the book.We also get to know Cindy's famous actress sister Mercedes, who can apparently do no wrong, and horse-loving pscyhotherapist Camilla who is all too ready to give advice to others but never gives away anything of herself.
Cindy gets her shot at fame - or, being famous for doing very little - when she is pursued by rock star Jasper.Finally, she is in the limelight and on the other side of the lens.But is this what she really wanted?
PR explores the way in which we create images for ourselves according to our backgrounds, aspirations, securities and insecurities.It explores the nature of human relationships; power plays, what is true and what is false and what constitutes real friendship and fulfilment.It's set in a glamorous world, but the characters and their dilemmas are very much those which we can all relate to.
Victoria Aitken is a songwriter, actress and writer who recently climbed the charts with her single I'll Be Your B***h. It reached number 6 in the DMC European Club charts, number 5 in the UK dance charts, and number 13 in the Music Week charts. Her song Daisy went to number 20 in the Music Week UK pop charts in November 2009.Victoria is currently working on her first album having now released four singles, Daisy, I'll be your b***h, the tongue in cheek recession anthem Vikki from the Yacht and her most recent, Sunshine. Her songwriting abilities have received note in magazines such as New York Magazine, Vogue, GQ, XXL, W Magazine, Elle, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Hot magazine Spain, the Cyprus mail and many others and she has performed on international TV.
On the writing side, Victoria has published numerous articles in The Sunday Times, London Magazine, The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday,The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and the websites www.thewip.net and www.globalcomment.com. In the UAE she writes for The National , 7 Days Magazine, The Khalejee Times, and is a contributing editor to www.holidaygoddess.info along with other novelists such as Jessica Adams.
In addition, Victoria has appeared in several films, one of which was recently shortlisted for an award at Cannes.PR is her first novel.
www.victoriaitken.com
