Article: Starfishing, by Nicola Monaghan

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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