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On The Floor (2013)

by Aifric Campbell(Favorite Author)

2.86 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1250028396 (ISBN13: 9781250028396)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Picador

review 1: The book was a good read, it was easy to follow the plot. It was my first book with a setting in the financial world and kudos to the author for making it easy to follow without bogging us down with financial details. But for a strong character like the heroine who has a past and present to reconcile with, an eccentric client, a prodigious mathematical talent and working in a man eat man world,among men, somewhere the heroine comes out as fragile, as if she cannot work things out. It confirms the female stereotype - not able to move on, emotional, naive.
review 2: Although this was longlisted for the Orange Prize, I found it disappointing. The writing style was a bit flowery for me, but having said that Aifric did manage to capture the macho willy waving of the... more City, a world she clearly knows well, and some of the descriptions were excellent. However, overall the plot was insubstantial and clunky, and as for Geri, well you had to wonder how someone so weak and gullible got to her exalted position in the first place. Shame really, because I feel the novel had the potential to be so much better ... less

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