Insiders
by Olivia Goldsmith
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Fiction. Romance. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:From the New York Times bestselling author of THE FIRST WIVES CLUB comes a story perfect for viewers of ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK.Jennifer is a smart, sexy woman who has broken through the glass ceiling to become a big-time trader in the world of high finance. When her boss is caught playing fast and loose with the regulations, Jennifer agrees to take the rap. After all, her fiancé is a lawyer with the connections to get her off.
But instead of beating show more the charges, she ends up in a women's prison; a world a whole lot meaner than Wall Street and where her designer clothes and fancy education count for nothing. She has to learn fast if she wants to survive. The women in the prison's top "crew" are people Jennifer would never, ever have befriended on the outside, but on the inside she soon discovers that working together is the only way out. show less
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Just an excellent, excellent book. I picked it up at the library because I had read her _First Wives Club_ some years ago, & liked it, then had bought _Switcheroo_ & was very pleased with that also. But this one tops them both, and a lot more. Contemporary, in that it deals with the Wall Street disaster that brought on the Great Recession, and appealing to boot in that it addresses women's issues - our proclivity to believe, to love, to "help out", even when that help is confessing to someone else's crimes & when that goes wrong, the someone else not just abandon's one, but turns on them. Not your usual womanupwomanship either, but beating them at their own game, because she always was better than them. Definitely on my to-read-again show more list; a lot of this one went by the side because I couldn't keep me eyes open, and I couldn't stop reading. Wonderful wonderful book; absolutely highly recommended. show less
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Author Olivia Goldsmith was born Randy Goldfield in Dumont, New Jersey in 1949. She attended New York University and became one of the first partners at the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton in New York. After she divorced her husband, she moved to London, changed her legal name to Justine Rendal, and became a writer. Her 1992 debut show more novel, "The First Wives Club" became a best-seller and was made into a movie in 1996. In her stories, there's a transformation of the main character and, according to Goldsmith, "In the Olivian universe, everybody gets what they deserve." Besides novels, she wrote articles for The New York Times and Cosmopolitan and wrote children's books under the name Justine Rendal. She received the Woman of Vision Award in 1997. She died from complications related to anesthesia on January 15, 2004 at the age of 54 (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Insiders
- Original title
- Penpals
- Original publication date
- 2002
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA
- First words
- "All rise."
- Quotations
- Although my Mont Blanc had long ago run dry, I managed with an inexpensive disposable ballpoint to compose a lengthy letter.
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- ISBNs
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