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Bad Money - Louise Patten

Description: ISBN 1847249132 / Genre: Fiction / Author: Louise Patten / Hardcover / 352 Pages / Book is published 2009-09-03 by Quercus Publishing Plc

Newest Review: ... better than the cover! As I said, Bad Money is not character driven it's more plot-driven. At first I thought there were far ... more

... too many characters and I found it difficult to get into a rhythm with the book but after a while, once I'd sorted out who everybody was I found the book absorbing. It's billed as an expose on what really goes on in the City and it is quite an eye-opener. I wouldn't have thought reading about the City would interest me but it really did. I have no idea how much of it actually happens but since Louise Patten used to work there I'd assume most of what happened would be plausible. Bad Money gives a lot of insight into...more

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Bad Money - Louise Patten: Bad Cover, Good Book! (729 words)
by - written on 22/09/09 (Very useful, 65 readings)
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Mary Kersey is trying to juggle working in the City with being a good mum and a good wife as well as keeping the home they live in liveable. Alan Dove, an ambitious CEO of a biotechnology company, decides to buy up another company along with the help of Ivan, an investment banker and a dodgy hedge-fund investor. Mary is thrust into the world of scandal as she believes something is wrong with the way Alan and co. took over F-ACE. Trouble is, not everybody is happy with her interfering ways... First off Bad Money is not the type of book I usually read. It's not character driven and it's not chick-lit. I really don't know what category to put it in, it's women's ... Read the complete review