Three Great Novels: Career Girls, The Movie, Tall Poppies by Louise Bagshawe
CAREER GIRLS Rowena Gordon, an upper-class Brit, and Topaz Rossi, a feisty Italian-American redhead, are best friends and equally determined to succeed in their chosen careers - Topaz as a journalist and Rowena in the music industry. But Rowena lets a moment's betrayal develop into a lifetime feud. She is hell-bent on making it to the top - not easy when there is an enemy determined to see her fail...THE MOVIE Screenwriter Megan Silver is a waitress in an LA burger joint, going nowhere fast. But she has a million-dollar idea, if only she can sell it. Supermodel Roxana Felix, a bitchy catwalk queen, wants to be a movie star and nothing is going to stop her. Hollywood studio president Eleanor Marshall desperately needs a smash hit to save her job. When these three collide, it's seismic...TALL POPPIES Nina and Elizabeth seem worlds apart: one a poor Jewish girl who becomes a brilliant business woman, the other an English public schoolgirl who is a champion skier. Under the skin, though, they are the same - desperate to escape their pasts and make a mark on the world. But there are always people who want to cut the tall poppies down to size...