In case you are unaware, I work at a New York technology start-up. A female-run, beginning from nothing, bound to be great (fingers crossed!) start-up. And to answer some previously posed questions, no, we do not have liquor carts delivering us drinks in the afternoon, or omelet and coffee bars greeting us every morning. We have instead one cubicle space rented from a co-start up pal, a couple of macintosh laptops, and days that run from 7am to 7pm – with any luck. Can you now see why I decided to read this book?

The Gilt Girls – lovingly referred to in the book (by themselves and their friends) as A&A – were in my shoes back in 2007 (metaphorically speaking as I wear converse and they wore Louboutins). They were two young, hard-working woman who came together because they had ... READ MORE