Changes

  Imogen Tate (Editor in Chief, fashionista, all -round legend) is back after an extended break for health reasons. Back at her desk at Glossy magazine, back in charge of the magazine and the team she’s spent years building and nurturing. Except she’s not. Things have changed a little while she’s been off. Her former assistant has sprung up the ranks and is now running the show. And it’s a show that’s now moved on, had its interval, and started its second act. Print and permanent are out, tech and temporary are in. The world has changed, the magazine’s going online and the old ways of working are just like Imogen – old. Forget trying to thrive, her new goal now is simply to survive in the arena she once loved and was happy to call home.

There was nothing I disliked about Imogen and I found myself rooting for her from the first page where we see her back in the day as a young associate editor, fresh off the boat from London. She was one of the most likable likeable leads I’ve read in a long time and given the chance to work under her tutelage, I would certainly not squander the opportunity as Eve did. It might just be me, but she also never really seemed ''that'' old. Competent, yes. Experienced, yes. Nice, funny and efficient, certainly, but not old. I know I’m lucky that I tend to be one of the younger ones in the room at work events, and I’m not in an industry where Techbitches are prevalent, but not for one second did I doubt that in certain fields, a set of Eve clones are already running around (and perhaps even running) the likes of New York and London. It’s a scary thought but this book did a great job of raising the issue, and showing you how to battle them back down to under your thumb if needed. Brilliant.