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Article: Starfishing, by Nicola Monaghan
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- March 28, 2008
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This is not, in fact, a nightclub. It's the trading floor of
LIFFE, the London International Financial Futures and Options
Exchange. The adrenalin-fuelled overlap between trading and clubbing
give an intense focus and continuity to Nicola Monaghan's exciting
and fluent second novel.
Traders, not always able to establish clear boundaries between
the two activities, throng Monaghan's plot. Frankie Cavanagh lands a
trainee trading job, by playing Spoof with her future boss, the
pumped-up Chicagoan Tom Phillips for whom she is "sick with lust".
There's little subtlety to Frankie. A working-class Essex "estate
girl", she is "viciously and unashamedly" ambitious, meticulous
about keeping her ...
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