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On the Floor

On the Floor

Author(s): Aifric Campbell

Location(s): London

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1991

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Geri Molloy is earning a huge salary working at a London investment bank just before the 1991 invasion of Kuwait. She is in on the verge of a breakdown, her boyfriend has left, she hardly sleeps and eats, and she has become a heavy drinker. Her position at work is dependent on the patronage of an iconoclastic hedge fund manager in Hong Kong. Where does it go from here…..

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That was the 1990s, huge salaries, teetering on the edge of sanity in the “City”. This novel captures that time really well.

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