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Careering

By: Daisy Buchanan
Narrated by: Celine Buckens, Jo Hartley
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'So perceptive and wise about the media, privilege, the differing but equally troubling pressures that women of all ages face, while still being moving, laugh out loud funny, and inspiring. I loved it.' Louise O'Neill, author of Idol

'As she did with sex in her first novel, Insatiable, now Daisy Buchanan holds up a mirror to the changing way we work in the raw and relatable Careering' Red

'This thought-provoking, emotionally intelligent, hilarious, sexy and always sharp novel is a fabulous ride.' Daily Mail

'A witty tale of the toxic world of modern work' Independent

careering (verb)
1. working endlessly for a job you used to love and now resent entirely
2. moving in a way that feels out of control

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Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, Imogen dreams of any job. Writing her blog around double shifts at the pub is neither fulfilling her creatively nor paying the bills.

Harri might just be Imogen's fairy godmother. She's moving from the glossy pages of Panache magazine to launch a fierce feminist site, The Know. And she thinks Imogen's most outrageous sexual content will help generate the clicks she needs.

But neither woman is aware of the crucial thing they have in common. Harri, at the other end of her career, has also been bitten and betrayed by the industry she has given herself to. Will she wake up to the way she's being exploited before her protégé realises that not everything is copy? Can either woman reconcile their love for work with the fact that work will never love them back? Or is a chaotic rebellion calling...

Hilarious and unflinchingly honest, Careering takes a hard look at the often toxic relationship working women have with their dream jobs.

©2022 Daisy Buchanan (P)2022 Hachette Audio UK
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A very fun read/listen. I adored Insatiable and was very excited to read a similar vibe book, set in the media world with relatable characters. I found the narration voices became a bit odd in places, a bit overly comical for me personally. (It felt like a mix between narration and acting but I'm v happy with straight up narration as a listener.) Either way I found it enjoyable, Daisy is a writer I love to read, and I appreciated how the women's lives were not all about chasing romance, the career focus was nice. Plenty of humour but touching in the right places too.

Really fun book, hot on the heels of Insatiable

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I’m four hours from the end but started to be driven mad by the second narrator. The first narrator is fantastic, and really embodies the character. The second narrator pauses in the middle of sentences constantly, making it hard to follow. Her characterisation of people in the book is cartoonish and ridiculous - which causes you to view them as cartoonish and ridiculous - when that’s definitely not what the author was going for. It’s also completely at odds with the effect from the first narrator.
Think it would have been better to have bought this as a book!

Second narrator woes

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I’m not the target audience for their book but I enjoyed it, the description of her threesome experience really resonated because of the way it made her feel and the difficulty women have with owning their sexuality, but also getting into situations that can cause so many mixed feelings. I think it’s well done and would make a great film/series.

Enjoyed this

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The story is a bit predictable but easy to listen to. The characters are pretty two dimensional and the “posh totty” voices do become grating. As others have said, the first narrator have got the voices pinned down, but the second narrator the voices are all over the place, with Imogen’s voice being the poshest and most snobbish, and Harri’s is rough despite it not matching the character. Because of the changes in characters the chapters are jarring. In terms of the story, I had really enjoyed Insatiable, but this falls flat.

It’s fine but nothing more

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I can only assume Buchanan had this lurking in her drawer from the late 90s and decided to capitalise on the success of her last book (which I loved btw). This, however, is awful. Gooey, saccharine, sub Bridget Jones rot. I get that she’s trying to show the top and bottom of the career ladder but it just falls flat at every point. From the unbearably naff depictions of glossy magazine employees, to the cringe inducing portrayal of the working class parents. Clearly the writer has never actually met anyone working class! The story goes nowhere but still - miraculously - has a faux happy ending. I must go and read Luster by Raven Leilani again to cleanse my pallet!

90s chick lit posing as zeitgeist feminism

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