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Elizabeth Day urges women to be more ‘me first’, less ‘no, no, after you’

Reading Paradise City reminds Laura Freeman of her own stressful experiences working for a newspaper on Kensington High Street

30 May 2015

9:00 AM

30 May 2015

9:00 AM

Paradise City Elizabeth Day

Bloomsbury, pp.354, £16.99

Paradise City, Elizabeth Day’s third novel, comes with an accompanying essay on The Pool — an online magazine for the Instagram, iPhone woman. Day, a feature writer for the Observer, discusses the novel’s male protagonist (you couldn’t call him hero) Sir Howard Pink, an East End Jewish boy turned rag-trade multimillionaire.

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