THE OPPOSITE OF SUCCESS

THE OPPOSITE OF SUCCESS is funny, clever and graced with entirely credible characters.

It's about work, motherhood, friendship and ambition.

It's about Lorrie, who is stuck in a routine job and has applied for a promotion she isn't sure she wants.

It's about her best friend, Alex, who is dealing with a different mess involving Lorrie's rakish ex, Ruben; or, more accurately, his wife.

And it's about Ruben's boss, the notorious mining magnate, Sebastian Glup, who, as it happens, is sponsoring an important climate-change project at Lorrie's work.

None of which suggests just how unhinged things get.

Or how fabulous entertaining this book is. It will appeal to readers who appreciate Liane Moriarty's mordant wit, but also fans of Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Gail Honeyman and Caitlin Moran.

Eleanor is in her late thirties. She worked for many years as a lawyer before devoting herself to writing full-time. She is a graduate of the Faber Writing Academy's ‘Writing a Novel' course. THE OPPOSITE OF SUCCESS is her first novel.