Don't Tell Eve

Airlie Lawson

Don't Tell Eve
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House Australia
Country
Australia
Published
3 August 2009
Pages
354
ISBN
9781741668742

Don’t Tell Eve

Airlie Lawson

Set against a background of irritatingly blue skies, trendy restaurants and catty parties, Don’t Tell Eve is a fast-paced, witty novel about obsession - and revenge.

Papyrus Press was a respectable, old-fashioned publishing house. Until Eve arrived. Bursting into the office with all the pizzazz of an amateur ballroom dancer, Eve is quickly discovered to be a devil, who doesn’t know how to wear Prada. She’s been told she must turn the company’s flagging finances around, and she doesn’t care if her means are fair, foul, ethical, legal or even sensible: they just have to be effective.

With the aid of her sadistic sidekick Hilary, Eve believes she has everything under control. But she hasn’t counted on interference from the enigmatic Jess, a woman with her own creative agenda.

There is also the small matter of a missing bad-boy celebrity chef, a radical management book, a notorious artist and a set of mysterious dolls. And then there’s Eve’s inscrutable and damaged husband, who might well have an agenda of his own …

A fresh, funny, contemporary novel full of intrigue and a hefty dose of sexual tension, Don’t Tell Eve will have you giggling - and guessing - until the very end.

Review

It had to happen eventually, didn’t it? A chicklit novel set in the world of publishing. Longtime publishing insider Airlie Lawson has written the book world’s answer to The Devil Wears Prada – only, in this case, the devil is Eve, ‘a plump Barbie doll of indeterminate age’ who wears outlandish outfits (leather bustier, anyone?), attempts to seduce trembling young authors, reads glossy mags instead of books and hires a schoolmarmish ex-crim as her PA/sidekick.

Jess, a young publisher currently in favour because everyone thinks she’s still dating the business partner of their most lucrative author, Alex (a celebrity chef, of course), is on a bizarre secret mission to teach Eve a lesson. Along the way, there’s an attraction between her fashion-designer best friend and her frenemy colleague, a sports publisher; pursuit by a dashing but annoying magazine writer; and the problem of Alex deciding to never write another book. Don’t Tell Eve has plenty of inside jokes and barbed witticisms – and tangled sexual tension galore.

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