Payday: A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick for Autumn 2022

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She’s looking forward to returning to LA. ‘Although I was thinking there will be a moment when we walk into a restaurant and Harry and Meghan will both be sitting there, because I keep seeing pictures of them in the restaurants we really like… but there’s no way we’ll stop going.’ Hang on to your hats. It’s going to be one hell of a ride. Cuando apenas arranqué la historia me sentí atrapada al instante porque muchísimas de las situaciones me sonaban familiares. Los after-office hablando de alguien en particular, los chismes en los pasillos, los favoritismos y secretos que saben todos (pero no se dicen) que circulan día a día. Supongo que es algo normal de cualquier oficina y, aunque este libro lo lleva más allá con un crimen, el resto no es nada alejado de la realidad.

En sí fue una lectura bastante adictiva por toda la trama y el desglose de los acontecimientos, sin embargo, no me convenció mucho. The police said they’d be in touch. That was what Paul had said. It could be hours. Or it could be minutes. And she couldn’t have that conversation without having spoken to Alex. Modern, intelligent and totally gripping. Nicole Kidman TV miniseries is written all over it * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH * There was a muffled clunk at the other end of the line, followed by silence. Then another clunk, and a whisper: ‘How?’Alex, already furious over her unfair dismissal and the fact that the promised job lead proffered by Jamie doesn't exist, is even angrier when she hears Nicole's story, and she proposes revenge. (Yes, this is probably a scene inspired by the Dolly Parton comedy "9 to 5" but believe me, this stuff ain't funny at all.) But his career soon boomeranged – Britain’s Got Talent, America’s Got Talent and the plum, as host of Larry King’s old flagship show on CNN, which was renamed Piers Morgan Live. By now, he and Walden had settled in California, having married in 2010 in Oxfordshire – a secret, intimate affair away from the paparazzi’s helicopters hovering overhead. ‘If I’d known,’ quipped Walden, ‘I’d have got my hair done properly.’

Prepare to be wrong-footed at every turn' CAZ FREAR Number One bestselling author of Sweet Little Lies En la fiesta de despedida de Joyce, nuestras protagonistas comienzan a hablar, entablar confianza y compartir intereses. Trazarán un plan para destruir al gerente pero... ¿A cualquier precio? But then Alex is fired and made the scapegoat for a mistake she didn't commit, Jill is hearing rumblings of her needing to retire, and at a company party, the three of them, never having really talked before, get drunk and air their grievances. Nicole lets slip that the boss, Jamie, has made unwanted advances toward her.Clever, compelling and chillingly plausible, Payday is a deftly plotted thriller that ratchets up the tension right until the final couldn't-see-it-coming twist. -- ELLERY LLOYD Initially I was gripped I thought this was going to be a story of the me too movement and revenge on the patriarchy. However this was not the case. Then Jamie is found dead. And suddenly they realise they have everything to lose, and everything to hide . . .

By the time she met Morgan, she was editing the popular Spy column in The Daily Telegraph, before becoming a senior features writer at the newspaper and later, a columnist and US editor-at-large. The one time her nose for a story failed her, she says, was when her husband invited her to join him in The Scarsdale pub in Kensington to meet an actress from a TV series they’d both enjoyed – Suits. Since Morgan is not a ladies’ man (‘that really would be a bit much on top of everything else’), Walden declined. ‘Why would I want to go and meet this actress Piers has been tweeting, I thought, so I said no, which was really very foolish of me.’ Payday follows the fallout of one evening, when three women who don’t know each other very well end up exchanging confidences about their boss, Jamie Lawrence. Everybody in their firm seems to love Jamie except, it transpires, Jill, Nicole and Alex. They all recognise Jamie for what he is: an exploitative and misogynistic power-hunter, with no scruples about using women for his own end. And they agree that something must be done to bring about his fall from grace. Bob Mortimer wins 2023 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with The Satsuma Complex Sharon Stone is another LA neighbour. ‘There was an awkward moment when she was showing us around her house and the three of us reached her bedroom,’ recalls Walden. ‘The thought bubble above Piers’s head read in bold caps: “I’ve fantasised about this moment many times, and at no point was my wife also in the room.”’ Prepare to be wrong-footed at every turn' CAZ FREAR, Number One bestselling author of Sweet Little Lies

Un hombre que aparenta ser perfecto. Es guapo, tiene una carrera exitosa en la empresa BWL, es una persona que puede caramelizar sus palabras y hacerte sentir especial e imnotisado. Tiene una gran familia y en sí, una muy buena reputación. I absolutely loved it. It’s unputdownable, a great mystery and a fantastic read’ BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD international bestselling author