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Bond Girl

February 29, 2012 by Nancy

Bond Girl, based on Erin Duffy’s real life at a financial company on Wall Street, has been described as The Devil Wears Prada meets Wall Street, but I think this description does the book a disservice.

Just out of college, Alex is hired at Cromwell Pierce to work on the bond trading floor. The daughter of a Wall Street banker, Alex finds working on the Street is not at all what she expected. In between fetching dozens of boxes of pizza and large orders of coffee from Starbucks, usually while wearing footwear inappropriate for such tasks, she moves her folding chair around the desk, watching over shoulders to learn the job. As she learns the ropes and proves her abilities, she earns the respect of her colleagues and her boss and finally earns her own spot on the desk. Alex also breaks one of her boss’s biggest rules and becomes involved with a cute coworker, but also has to fend off the advances of an important client who won’t take no for an answer.

While Alex — nicknamed Girlie — spends a good portion of her first year as a gopher, and mistakes are punished in unusual methods, such as fetching a 50 lb. wheel of cheese, the similarity to Prada ends there. Her coworkers play some crazy pranks on each other and engage in some questionable behavior, but they’re mostly good people and encourage her. When the economy tanks and Cromwell’s employees are hit hard, Alex has to decide what she really wants to do with her life.

Bond Girl is a fun read, and while the financial jargon in the beginning was difficult to follow, you can’t help but cheer Alex on as she navigates the world of Wall Street.

Please leave a comment if you’d like to win a copy (U.S. shipping only). We’ll announce the winner in our giveaway column on 3/14. This giveaway is closed.

The winners of Beyond Molasses Creek are Chuck, #20 and Liz, #9.

Nancy would not do well in the high-stress world of Wall Street. She writes about her 2 boys, books and life in Colorado at Life With My Boys and Books.

Filed Under: Fiction, Nancy

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Comments

  1. Jen E says

    February 29, 2012 at 9:01 am

    This one sounds really good, I’d love to win a copy!

  2. Beth says

    February 29, 2012 at 9:11 am

    This looks great! Please enter me!

    bethsbookreviewblog2 AT gmail DOT com

  3. Jenni says

    February 29, 2012 at 9:52 am

    always love to win new books!

  4. Sandra K321 says

    February 29, 2012 at 10:09 am

    Sounds like a good book. Please include me.

  5. Chuck says

    February 29, 2012 at 11:15 am

    Please enter me, thanks

  6. Beth C says

    February 29, 2012 at 12:01 pm

    I’ve read great reviews of this. Thanks so much for the chance to win it.
    pbclark(at)netins(dot)net

  7. Staci A says

    February 29, 2012 at 12:07 pm

    I would love to read this!

  8. Colleen Turner says

    February 29, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    This sounds so good! I would love to win this…thanks for the giveaway!

  9. Ellie says

    February 29, 2012 at 2:49 pm

    Thanks for this great giveaway.

  10. Angela E. says

    February 29, 2012 at 8:33 pm

    Alex sounds like a little spit fire in this book, would love to read it!

  11. Shari says

    February 29, 2012 at 8:47 pm

    Would love to win! Who knows, maybe I’d learn something about Wall Street. 😉

  12. Natalia says

    February 29, 2012 at 9:42 pm

    Would like to win

  13. John says

    February 29, 2012 at 9:43 pm

    Please count me in.

    • Nancy says

      March 14, 2012 at 10:08 am

      John, you win! Please reply to this email with your mailing address and we’ll pass it along. Congrats!

  14. Tammy Gordon says

    February 29, 2012 at 10:39 pm

    would really love to read this

  15. Jilleen Hays says

    February 29, 2012 at 11:58 pm

    I would love to win this book. There are so many people talking about what a great book it is.

    Thanks for the chance to win it.

    seasidebooknook at yahoo dot com

  16. dianne11 says

    March 1, 2012 at 11:00 am

    This sounds like a good beach read. As the weather warms always looking for a good read in the sun. Thanks for the giveaway

  17. Bethany says

    March 1, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    This book sounds great! I’d love to be entered–
    cbus.blogger at gmail dot com

  18. Stephanie says

    March 1, 2012 at 10:40 pm

    Sounds like a fun read! Thanks!

  19. Linda Kish says

    March 1, 2012 at 11:33 pm

    Sounds great. Count me in, please.

    lkish77123 at gmail dot com

  20. Don says

    March 2, 2012 at 9:26 am

    Would like to read.

  21. Kim says

    March 2, 2012 at 9:30 pm

    It sounds really good, count me in Nancy! 🙂

  22. Mary Ann Woods says

    March 3, 2012 at 11:36 am

    From the reviews that I have read, Bond Girl sounds like a book I would enjoy reading. Thanks for the chance to win a copy!

  23. Garrett says

    March 3, 2012 at 10:23 pm

    This book really sounds good.

  24. Anita Yancey says

    March 4, 2012 at 2:32 pm

    Sounds like a good and fun read. I know I would really enjoy it. Please enter me. Thanks!

  25. Alison S. says

    March 5, 2012 at 6:41 pm

    I work in the financial industry so this looks like a book that I would really enjoy.

  26. June says

    March 7, 2012 at 10:45 am

    Would like to read.

  27. Carolyn Parks says

    March 8, 2012 at 1:45 pm

    Sounds fantastic – would love to read!

  28. Van says

    March 12, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    This book sounds good.

  29. Lori says

    March 13, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    Would like to win this one.

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