“I’m crazy about Bond Girl. Erin Duffy is a fresh, funny, and fabulous new voice.”
—Adriana Trigiani, author of Brava, Valentine
The Devil Wears Prada meets Wall Street in Bond Girl—a hilarious, fast–paced race through the jungle of high finance in four–inch heels. An author who spent ten years working on Wall Street, Erin Duffy has parlayed her stock market savvy into a fresh, hip, funny, and … funny, and sexy novel about a bright, young, newly minted B-school graduate’s rise at one of the Street’s most prestigious brokerage firms—only to confront the possible destruction of her dreams in the infamous 2008 financial bust. Bond Girl is a blue chip hoot for anyone who loves smart and fun contemporary woman’s fiction.
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Alex Garrett is fresh out of UVA when she takes a job on Wall Street and realizes it’s not quite what she’d grown up idolizing. Part bond-market-primer, part Devil Wears Prada, Erin Duffy has drawn extensively from her own decade working in fixed-income sales on Wall Street.
The good: Bond Girl is a quick and entertaining read. It’s light – both …
very relevant with the #metoo movement, a little scary to think how things were (are?) on wall street, but also heartening to know that there are good guys there too. was an interesting read
I loved this book. It presents a picture of a young woman (one woman, working with a Lot of men on Wall Street). This story of her year on a trading floor is witty and wise. I’ve heard these stories of interns and beginners, of course, but some of the jobs she was asked to do were so demeaning and way below her educational level; however, she …
Young career woman in the big city copes with a high-pressure job and lots of male egos, finding friends, heartache and happiness along the way. There aren’t any surprises here, but the writing is decent and the wall-street angle is novel. It’s light reading…think beach bag or plane trip.
an alright book. It was not my cup of tea.