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Kate Harris is high-earning executive who wants nothing more than to be liked. She never criticises, never delegates and feels guilty asking her secretary to type letters... But when her leaving present turns out to be a doormat, Kate decides enough is enough. No more Ms Nice Girl. From now on, she's going to be mean, tough and ruthless. And where better to debut her act than in her new job? Only playing Cruella de Vil by day and Julie Andrews by night is giving Kate an identity crisis. And her staff are less than impressed to discover the new boss they'd heard was a pussy cat has teeth and claws. They're determined to try every trick in the book to bring back the old Kate. All any hard-nosed career woman needs is a good man to melt her stony heart, right? Wrong, but that isn't going to stop her staff from trying...
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First published July 25, 2002
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June 14, 2025
I found this book in a little secondhand bookshop in Port Douglas under a pile of long forgotten romance novels. With no recent reviews to make a judgement on whether it was worth a read I picked up the battered metallic blue cover and it was one of my favourite reads so far this year.
It’s a story of reinvention. Kate finishes one job to start another determined to be someone different after her former colleagues gift her a literal doormat as a farewell gift. She wants to be respected at work and not metaphorically ‘walked all over’ so embarks on changing her appearance and personality until she starts to question whether it was all necessary.
We move around from Kate’s perspective to her coworkers, her parents, her best friend and others around them who are working through their own decisions and the consequences of them. Sometimes too many perspectives can make for a torturous read but every character in this book had a part to play with equally interesting story lines.
Women in the workplace have come along way since 2002 but even I winced at Kate’s monologue about saying sorry to everyone when she is just trying to do her job - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It’s a story of reinvention. Kate finishes one job to start another determined to be someone different after her former colleagues gift her a literal doormat as a farewell gift. She wants to be respected at work and not metaphorically ‘walked all over’ so embarks on changing her appearance and personality until she starts to question whether it was all necessary.
We move around from Kate’s perspective to her coworkers, her parents, her best friend and others around them who are working through their own decisions and the consequences of them. Sometimes too many perspectives can make for a torturous read but every character in this book had a part to play with equally interesting story lines.
Women in the workplace have come along way since 2002 but even I winced at Kate’s monologue about saying sorry to everyone when she is just trying to do her job - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 7, 2009
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