Publisher Description

The television show The Office meets Bridget Jones in a novel set in an office so dysfunctional, it's bound to strike a chord with any nine-to-fiver. A compulsively readable, hilarious novel told through the e-mail messages of Martin Lukes. Martin Lukes is a man who is good at taking credit where it isn't due; a man who works hard at "personal growth" but consistently lets down everyone around him; a man who communicates with his sons by e-mail and fails to notice how smart his wife, Jenny, really is; a man -- in short -- who loves jargon but totally lacks understanding.

Author Biography

Lucy Kellaway is the management columnist at the Financial Times. She also writes a weekly management column for the Irish Times. In addition she has worked as energy correspondent, Brussels correspondent, a Lex column writer for the Financial Times, and interviewer of business people and celebrities, all with the FT. She has become well known for her pointed commentaries on the limitations of modern corporate culture. At the British Press Awards 2006 she was named Columnist of the Year.

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"Few people are as well equipped as business columnist Lucy Kellaway to write a novel that

Long Description

Full of ambition and delusions of grandeur, Martin Lukes is a man who is good at taking credit where it isn't due, a man who works hard at "personal growth" but consistently lets down everyone around him, a man who communicates with his sons by email and fails to notice how smart his wife Jenny really is, a man--in short--who loves jargon but totally lacks understanding. This novel follows a year in his life, via email exchanges. The year starts out with Martin hiring Pandora, an executive coach who spews comic but earnest aphorisms at the already self-aggrandizing Martin.&

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