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In Townsley's latest bouncy novel, British 20-something Jennifer Bell navigates corporate and family intrigue with a mix of pluck and naïveté. Jen's divorced parents, Harriet and George, are at political and personal odds: George heads a management consultancy firm, Bell Consulting, and Harriet runs a leftish environmental firm, Green Futures, where Jen is a recent hire. After a 15-year estrangement from her father, Jen surreptitiously re-enters his sphere at her mother's urging. Harriet suspects George of involvement in a property deal bribery and conscripts her pliable daughter to go undercover at his 3,000-person firm, where Jen flies under the radar as a student in the company's M.B.A. program. She snoops for dirt until her father finds her hiding in his closet. While Jen and George (who's not really the "cheating, selfish, unethical ogre" her mother says he is) begin a rapprochement, Jen also falls for Daniel Peterson, an M.B.A. program guest lecturer and bookselling executive, and discovers that, despite her do-gooder convictions, she may have inherited a knack for business. But when news breaks implicating Bell Consulting in the bribery scandal, Jen must re-evaluate which parent she can truly trust. Townley (Little White Lies) delivers a charming if predictable third novel.
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Jennifer Bell never thought she'd be getting an MBA. But when Jen's mother suspects her estranged husband's company is behind a scheme to cover up misused tsunami aid money, she signs Jen up for a company-sponsored MBA program and asks her to do some spying. Of course, this undercover mission doesn't go exactly as planned. Jen finds herself falling for guest-lecturer Daniel and becoming more interested in her studies as a result. Then, her father catches her just as she thinks she has found some hard evidence to implicate him. The novel traces Jen's burgeoning relationships with these two men--a new love and the father she never really had. Townley shines at creating characters who are engaging and realistic. She falls a little flat when using business-school metaphors to frame situations, but readers will be too charmed by the romance and intrigued by the family drama to care. Aleksandra Kostovski
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Misleading Title,
By Nikki-licious "Shopaholic Fan" (Toronto Ont) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Learning Curves: A Novel of Sex, Suits, and Business Affairs (Paperback)
This book main focus was on business affairs. The title sounds so exiting but the book isnt anywhere near that.what about the sex and suits parts of it? I was really looking forward to a laugh but didnt find it funny although the author tried.what i don't understand is why the author took the reader in dept into the classroom talking about SWOT analysis and mergers etc.I find that it was too much info and felt like i was in school again. I also do not like this type of writing style.
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This review is from: Learning Curves: A Novel of Sex, Suits, and Secret Affairs (Mass Market Paperback)
This novel touches the issues of moral and corporate responsibility. I found the story is trying to give you an insight into business management. This book is light in nature and substance and the story is overall predictable.
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This review is from: Learning Curves: A Novel of Sex, Suits, and Business Affairs (Paperback)
This book did make me laugh a couple times, and kept me entertained enough to read it through (it didn't take long to read). It gets two stars for that, but that's all. The main supporting charactors all seemed way too emotionally immature to be as successful in their careers as they were supposed to be, and as for the main charactor, it was hard to remember she was supposed to be a bright 27 year old woman as she came across more like a naive and aimless teenager.The back of the book of the edition I read billed the plot as being along the lines of "Eco-Girl gets seduced by the glamour of the business world." In fact, Jennifer doesn't really have much of an identity to lose - she's always defined by whatever her parents and current boyfriend. The only glimmer of self-actualization is she knows she doesn't like wearing suits - or maybe she does? My suspicion is that the author didn't really know what a real eco-activist would behave or think like. The grasp on the issues involved in sustainable business practices was also superficial. Sure this is light reading, but the potential was there to be both more humourous and/or more insightful with the topic.
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