Temporary Insanity FROM THE PUBLISHER
Meet Alice Finnegan: thirty-something, single and determined to take control of her own destiny ... even if she is stuck in a series of secretarial temp jobs and living with her beloved ninety-year-old grandmother — a feisty, funny, former Ziegfeld showgirl.
But that's easier said than done when your job counselor can't spell "employment" correctly, your boss has you planning her daughter's wedding, your new boyfriend cares more about his career than caresses, and your dreams of stardom are dashed when a hotshot casting director suggests you get your nose fixed — and you already have.
But even as it seems that Alice's world has gone crazy, and she succumbs to a Mr. Right who turns into a Mr. Not Right Now, she knows that any insanity is only temporary ...
About the Author:
Native New Yorker Leslie Carroll is also a professional actress, dramatist, and journalist. Her first two books, contemporary romantic comedies set in her hometown, won a series of rave reviews. She also writes historical and New York "tart noir" detective fiction. Leslie has worked more temp jobs than she cares to remember in the fields of politics, advertising, public relations, and — far too frequently — law. But it's all ripe for social satire and fodder for fiction!
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
A string of rotten office jobs, unsympathetic superiors and leering co-workers drives unemployed actor Alice Finnegan wild in Temporary Insanity, a romance by Leslie Carroll, herself a temp worker and thespian. Alice-a single 30-something who lives with her retired showgirl grandmother-finally gets her big break when she auditions for a part in a play eerily reminiscent of her Irish immigrant family's own travails. Carroll's dramatic flair and peppy, earnest account of all-too-real office scenarios distinguish this spirited chick-lit offering. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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