She is unable to be the author of her own story, which is changed, by both her attackers and the authorities, into a cautionary tale about how her reckless behaviour could have threatened the futures of promising young men.
Alice was too out of it to remember what – if anything – actually happened, but the rumour blights the remainder of her school days and her life thereafter. Afterwards, two of the jocks boast about what they did to a drunk girl. Genre-defying, with a structure that utilises film scripts, college admission essays and emails as well as conventional narrative, True Story (Riverrun, £14.99) is the tale of an alleged assault at an American high school sports team’s party in 1999. Its slippery nature, together with the ways in which we reframe the experiences of others to serve our own ends, is the theme of Kate Reed Petty’s disturbing debut. Written by a Big Law insider under a pseudonym, The Boys’ Club is a perceptive and sympathetic portrait of an ambitious woman’s attempt to steer a course through workplace bullying, discrimination and harassment.Įven without legal obfuscation, the truth can be hard to establish. There’s also the question of how far she is prepared to overlook the misogyny and entitlement of the firm’s biggest client, and the lengths to which her bosses will go in order to protect their own interests. The salary is fantastic and her new colleagues – all male – are glamorous and dangerously appealing, but the work hard play hard culture soon takes its toll on Alex’s relationship, and her life begins to spin out of control.
It’s an honour for high achiever Alex Vogel to be selected to work at Klasko & Fitch, especially among the egos in the Mergers & Acquisitions department. Erica Katz’s first novel, The Boys’ Club (Trapeze, £18.99), is a legal thriller with a difference – not a lone man fighting an injustice, but a young female associate caught up in systemic sexism at a Manhattan law firm.
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