"I'm afraid that this former (British) Vogue intern did not pass muster: wrong era, wrong country. A woman who almost certainly would pass with flying colours is the former Vogue staffer Caroline Palmer, now the author of a novel, Workhorse, set at the magazine during the dying days of a golden age of women's glossies, when the lunches were boozy, the couture was free and almost anything could be expensed."
"In this first decade of the new millennium, we meet Clodagh, or Clo, a suburban twentysomething workhorse trying to make it in a world of rich, beautiful, well-connected show horses, and willing to do almost anything to get there. The women's magazine has an established literary history, from The Bell Jar to The Devil Wears Prada. So too does the genre we'll call young woman comes of age in New York City"
Workhorse is set at a fashion magazine in the early 2000s, during the dying days of a golden age of women's glossies when lunches were boozy, couture was free and expenses ran wild. The protagonist, Clodagh (Clo), is a suburban twentysomething who lies, steals and drinks while striving to join wealthy, well-connected colleagues. The novel weaves magazine-world detail with grifter and coming-of-age elements and aligns with literary precedents from The Bell Jar to The Devil Wears Prada and grifter tales like The Talented Mr Ripley and Gatsby. Clo embodies class envy, internalised misogyny and a highly dislikable charm.
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