Grace Armiger's humdrum professional life as a publicist for a London publisher and personal life with a nagging mother, dishonest boyfriend, and dismal apartment are turned upside down by a chance encounter with a famous celebrity and by ruthless tabloid journalist Belinda Black, who sees the opportunity for the interview of a lifetime. Original. The single-British-working-gal subgenre of fiction is in no danger of going on the dole as long as Holden is writing. In her latest novel, her everygal heroine, Grace Armiger, works for a floundering publishing house. It is Grace's job to promote the house's quality no-sellers, and in an effort to find an audience for a handsome explorer's unusual memoir, she runs into numerous public relations pitfalls. In another corner of the publishing world, scheming tabloid journalist Belinda Black is suffering through B-list celebrity interviews for a column called "Tea Break" while contemplating ways of taking over the star feature interview slot. When Grace is assigned to handle the first novel of a shallow international movie star, Belinda sees a way to score the interview of her career. Grace meets her new writer armed with tact and heart palpitations, while Belinda fires up her "cleavagecam." Holden gives the world of books and writers a cheerful drubbing, and readers will enjoy every word. Kaite Mediatore Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved "...the sharp, acerbic fourth novel from Wendy Holden is a sassy send-up of the literary elite." -- Shocklit Life , March 2003 ...a softly satirical story that rolls along on the strength of appealing characters and wry humor, rather than one-liners. -- Bookpage Gossip Hound is like Bridget Jones with a bite. -- Curled Up with a Good Book The adjective I keep returning to for this novel is "smart"... -- Harvard Book Review Wendy Holden is the internationally bestselling author of Simply Divine , Bad Heir Day , and Farm Fatale . She is the former deputy editor of the Tatler and worked at the Sunday Times and the Mail on Sunday .