Workhorse

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An astonishing portrait of a city on the brink of a dizzying new era and a story about a young woman who will seemingly do anything to infiltrate the rarefied world of New York's fashion elite.

New York City, 2001.

Editorial Assistant Clodagh Clo Harmon wants nothing more than to rise through the ranks at the worlds most prestigious fashion magazine. But theres just one problem: she doesnt have the right pedigree. Clo is a workhorse in a world of beautiful, wealthy, impossibly well-connected show horses and it seems that her fortunes will never change. That is until Clo meets Harry Wood, a reporter with visions of his own media empire and the person who might be Clos ally in gaming the systemor is he the only thing standing between Clo and her rightful place at the top

Clo begins to wade across boundaries, taking ever greater and more dangerous risks to become the Important Person she wants to be. But who is Clo under all the borrowed designer clothes and studied manners And who are we if we share her desires

As wickedly funny as it is darkly unsettling, Workhorse is an astonishing story of envy and ambition, set against the glamour and privilege of media and high society in New York at its height.

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Caroline Palmer spent seven years as the Editor of Vogue.com and was subsequently the Director of Editorial, Video, and Social Media at Amazon Fashion. She is now an advisor at a venture firm and start-up accelerator in New York, as well as consulting with fashion, technology and beauty brands. She sits on the Foundation Board at FIT and is the chairperson of the fashion department advisory council at the University of Delaware. She has also worked at the New York Times, Real Simple, Seventeen magazine, Vogue and the Public Theatre.