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Starfishing - Nicola Monaghan

Description: ISBN 0099507927 / Genre: Fiction / Author: Nicola Monaghan / Paperback / 272 Pages / Book is published 2009-03-05 by Vintage

Newest Review: ... An archetypal sensation-seeker, addicted to the adrenaline rush of risk, she pushes the limits further and further in the ... more

... pursuit of thrills. An escapee from the council estate in Ilford, where her working-class, widower father is still hoping she might one day provide him with a son-in-law who drives a white van and produce a couple of grandchildren, Frankie is viciously ambitious and doesn't do love - the references to the 'hidden shallows' abound in Starfishing. Frankie's delivery takes a while to get used to: but eventually her voice becomes familiar and the tired similes, the pedestrian narrative, the matter-of-fact, hard-bitten vulgar...more

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Starfishing - Nicola Monaghan: CITY-TRIPPING (628 words)
by - written on 04/04/09 (Very useful, 107 readings)
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Frankie Cavanagh lands her dream job of a trader on the open-outcry exchange of LIFFE, the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange. The year is 1997, LIFFE is under danger from an electronic trading system, but as for now the mayhem of the trading pit is still the ever-exciting reality for Frankie and her (overwhelmingly male) co-workers and friends. Frankie works hard and plays hard and the continuous juxtaposition of the adrenaline-fuelled dance of the trading floor and the drug-fuelled dance on the real dance-floors of the clubs; the come-down at the end of trading and the come-down from the pill high; all punctuated by the FTSE100 ... Read the complete review