Chick lit often (though by no means always) features a glamorous working environment, like PR or publishing. This week’s Thursday Three looks at three books based in and around newspaper offices. What do you mean, they're not glamorous?
Sarah Mason’s Playing James features Holly, who is unimpressed with a transfer to the crime desk and horrified when she’s assigned a detective to shadow and write a daily diary about, particularly one she doesn’t get on with. Can you guess what happens?
The staff of fictional newspaper the New York Journal are the focus of Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot, sequel to The Boy Next Door. The convoluted plot features the firing of the woman responsible for the dessert trolley, and the book is made up of letters, emails, transcripts of instant message conversations, minutes from meetings, diary entries and just about anything else that can be put down on paper.
Carry on over the cut for the third and final book (which may offer a clue to next week’s Thursday Three too!)
Sam Baker’s Fashion Victim features Annie Anderson, an investigative reporter at The Post, whose friends are shocked when she swaps her newspaper job for one on a glossy magazine. Little do they know that Annie is going undercover for a scoop on the fashion world. When her first interviewee, top designer Mark Mailer, is murdered, Annie sets off on a dangerous course to uncover the truth.
