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Hot Desk

byLaura Dickerman

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'Hilarious, heartbreaking, satirical, cutting and FUN'
Laura Jane Williams

'For anyone who loves Curtis Sittenfeld, Nora Ephron, Alison Espach'
Joanna Rackoff

'Super smart and assured . . . Fans of Tom Lake and The Flatshare will love it'
Sarra Manning

'Rollicking and entertaining'
People Magazine

'Captures all the thrills and aches of setting out in the world'
Morgan Dick


1982
When wide-eyed Jane Kinloch arrives at the East River Review in New York, she strikes up a friendship with her fellow intern, the glamorous Rose. But Rose's attraction to their married boss, literary titan Edward David Adams, threatens to drive a wedge between them.

2022

When hot-desking is introduced at her office, Rebecca Blume of Avenue Publishing is furious about having to share her workspace with Ben Heath - an editor at rival imprint Hawk Mills.

What starts as a battle of passive-aggressive Post-It notes escalates after the death of renowned writer Edward David Adams. He has left behind an unfinished novel - and Ben and Rebecca are in competition to publish it.

That is until Rebecca discovers that the manuscript contains a decades-old secret about her mother, Jane.

Rebecca is determined to stop it from seeing the light of day. But can she persuade Ben to let it go?

So charming and so accomplished, Hot Desk is by turns hilarious, heart-breaking, satirical, cutting and FUN. I absolutely loved it, and got way more than I bargained for in this dual-timeline tale of love and lust in publishing.

Laura Jane Williams, bestselling author of OUR STOP

About Laura Dickerman

Laura Dickerman has an MA in Fiction from NYU and an MA in English from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. She has taught high-school English at the Hopkins School, the Collegiate School for Boys, and Germantown Friends. She was an intern at The Paris Review many, many years ago. At her lowest point, she spent a month temping for her younger brother Colin at Grove/Atlantic where he was critical of her photocopying skills. She’s been a bookclub leader, tutor, and recipient of an NEH grant. She has lived in Vermont, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, Brussels, and currently in Atlanta with her husband. They have two grown daughters. Hot Desk is her first novel.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781405972543
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Price: £4.99
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