Career Girls - Louise Bagshawe

If you want a book that's racy, true to fashion and inspirationally escapist than this is the book for you. Basically imagine a Jackie Collins novel 90's style! Basically the story line is quite familiar to other Louise Bagshawe books but this is the first so definitely the best as it was an original idea. Poor little rich girl (Rowena Gordon) and one from the wrong side of the tracks (Topaz Rossi) meet up at university, both determined on their careers, both determined to succeed. However Rowena steals Topaz's man away from her, inevitably Topaz finds out and is none too pleased and basically sets out to hurt her in the best way she can-her career. ...  Read the complete review

I've been a "semi" fan of Louise Bagshawe's books ever since I read "Tall Poppies" about two years ago. I then went on to read Venus Envy, A Kept Woman, and her new one When She Was Bad. The only books I hadn't read were her first two, Career Girls, and The Movie. So, imagine my delight when I find a 3-in-1 book with those two and Tall Poppies in! All for the knockdown price of £5.99 :-) Anyway. Career Girls. Bagshawe's first book, and although not her best, still enjoyable. The book centres around two girls, Topaz, a fiesty Italian-American who has a passion for writing and publishing, and Rowena, a rich Scottish girl with a ...  Read the complete review

Louise Bagshawe’s hugely enjoyable first novel charts the decade long feud between former best friends turned bitter enemies, fiery American Topaz Rossi and poor little rich girl Rowena Gorden. The 2 career girls fight their way from students at Oxford University to the top of their respective careers in the magazine and record business, trying to destroy each other while accumulating fabulous riches, boyfriends and dresses, dresses, dresses along the way. Though it’s slightly more realistic Career Girls has more than a hint of the Jackie Collins bonk-buster. At one point a character remarks "its like the eighties never ended" in regard ...  Read the complete review