This is the story of a life in crisis, set in the world of high finance. At the age of twenty-eight, Dubliner Geri Molloy has put her troubled past behind her to become a major player at Steiner's investment bank in London, earning $850k a year doing business with a reclusive hedge fund manager in Hong Kong who, in return for his patronage, likes to ask her about Kant and watch while she eats exotic Asian delicacies. For five years Geri has had it all, but in the months leading up to the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1991, her life starts to unravel. Abandoned by her corporate financier boyfriend, in the grip of a debilitating insomnia, and drinking far too much, Geri becomes entangled in a hostile takeover involving her boss, her client and her ex. With her career on the line as a consequence, and no one to turn to, she is close to losing it, in every sense.
"'Aifric Campbell is one of my favourite Irish novelists' (Joseph O'Connor) 'Sexy, sad, riven with longing, The Loss Adjustor confirms a talent of unusual promise' (Nicholas Shakespeare) 'Campbell writes with lambent precision... The Loss Adjustor is a mesmerising study of a woman clinging to the knotted cord of adolescence, uncertain whether to go backwards or forwards' (Guardian)"
Title: On the Floor
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Aifric Campbell
ISBN 13: 9781846688089
ISBN 10: 1846688086
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Imprint: Serpent's Tail
Publication Date: 12/04/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Modern fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification:
823.92
(DC23)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm