PA's STORY: Sex, Salaries and Square Mile Sleeze

Unlucky with her job choices and full of bad language, be prepared for a quick read and plenty of bitching, lying, high salary, office romances and sleezy behaviour. Life as the Personal Assistant to some of the most wealthy and powerful men in the country is a poisoned chalice. As the first line of communication between the big boss and the outside world, a PA also becomes the last frontier of secrecy, confidentiality and trust. Given the right boss, an exhilarating working life can blossom but with the wrong boss it can become a living hell. Surely we know that you get more work out of people if they feel respected and valued? Not here! Victoria Knowles's unique inside perspective as a woman fighting to thrive in a vice-filled world dominated by men is revealing, scandalous and a shocking exposé about the men who have everything and still want more. Beware she cries a lot in this sobbing memoir. The high-flying city boss lifestyle has been scrutinised many times in the press with revelations of sexist bullying, elicit affairs and pornography in the office, and here is a furious memoir about Victoria's decade working in the City of London. 296pp, paperback.