Author:Jeremy Blachman
He's a hiring partner at one of the world's largest law firms. Brilliant yet ruthless, he has little patience for associates who leave the office before midnight or steal candy from the bowl on his secretary's desk. He hates holidays and paralegals. And he's just started a web-blog to tell the world about what life is really like at the top of his profession.
Meet Anonymous Lawyer - corner office, granite desk, and a billable rate of $675 an hour. The summer is about to start, and he's got a new crop of law school interns who will soon sign away their lives for a six-figure salary at the firm. But he's also got a few problems that require his attention. There's The Jerk, his bitter rival at the firm, who is determined to do whatever it takes to beat him out for the chairman's job. There's Anonymous Wife, who is spending his money as fast as he can make it. And there's that secret blog he's writing, which is a perverse bit of fun until he gets an e-mail from someone inside the firm who knows he's its author.
Written in the form of a blog, Anonymous Lawyer is a fiendishly clever and hilarious debut that rips away the bland façade of corporate law and offers a telling glimpse inside a frightening world.
Stocked with up-to-the-minute references, and exposing, as it does, our culture's mania to win at all costs, ANONYMOUS LAWYER has pierced the heart of a moment in our social history
—— New York PostA rather entertaining satirical debut that offers an exposé of the lives of US corporate lawyers and what really goes on behind closed doors
—— www.bookbag.co.ukCements his reputation as an accomplished and challenging novelist… Though it takes place 130 years ago, the questions that The Streets poses about how, as a society and individuals, we tackle deprivation arguably remain just as pertinent.
—— Peter Stanford , IndependentQuinn blends his history, his political concerns, his ideals, his plot and his characters elegantly, with a light hand and the pace of a thriller.
—— Louisa Young , Daily TelegraphDisplays the unsentimental yet powerful flair for romance that characterized his previous novel, Half of the Human Race. Perhaps most exciting of all, there is a sense that he is still writing within himself.
—— Tom Cox , Sunday TimesMagnificent, bringing the Dickensian streets to grubby, teeming life.
—— Eithne Farry , Daily MailAnthony Quinn is a terrific storyteller. He has a thrilling knack for turning familiar periods of history into something surprising and often shocking, and for making the fortunes and misfortunes of his characters matter.
—— Juliet Nicholson , Evening StandardQuinn brings the period in question vividly to life: his research is exemplary, and his subject absorbing.
—— Lucy Scholes , ObserverAnthony Quinn’s novels just get better... Parallels with contemporary London lurk just below the surface. This is not only an exciting thriller and a touching, stop-start love story but a seriously important book.
—— Sue Gaisford , TabletAll the ingredients of an upmarket page-turner.
—— Max Davidson , Mail on SundayA story that brings alive an area of Camden that saw massive social change in a short space of time: the explosion of the railways and the shoe-horning of thousands of semi-starved people into slums provide a backdrop.
—— Dan Carrier , Camden New JournalA devastating tale of subterfuge, poverty and privilege set in the cobbled streets of Victorian London.
—— Daily RecordMagnificent, bringing the Dickensian streets to grubby, teeming life
—— Eithne Farry , Daily MailCements his reputation as an accomplished and challenging novelist… Though it takes place 130 years ago, the questions that The Streets poses about how, as a society and individuals, we tackle deprivation arguably remain just as pertinent
—— Peter Stanford , IndependentQuinn blends his history, his political concerns, his ideals, his plot and his characters elegantly, with a light hand and the pace of a thriller
—— Louisa Young , Daily TelegraphQuinn’s most mature novel yet… His picture of poverty’s shaming, dehumanizing effect is powerful, and the recurrent call for pity heartfelt. Ms Eliot and Mr Dickens would surely approve
—— Holly Kyte , Sunday TelegraphAnthony Quinn is a terrific storyteller. He has a thrilling knack for turning familiar periods of history into something surprising and often shocking, and for making the fortunes and misfortunes of his characters matter
—— Juliet Nicholson , Evening StandardDisplays the unsentimental yet powerful flair for romance that characterized his previous novel, Half of the Human Race. Perhaps most exciting of all, there is a sense that he is still writing within himself
—— Tom Cox , Sunday TimesQuinn brings the period in question vividly to life: his research is exemplary, and his subject absorbing
—— Lucy Scholes , ObserverAll the ingredients of an upmarket page-turner
—— Max Davidson , Mail on SundayAmbitious, gripping and disturbingly well done
—— Kate Saunders , The TimesBeyond its splendid feel for the era’s chat and patter, the novel pits philanthropy and opportunism, ideals and selfishness, bracingly at odds
—— Boyd Tonkin , IndependentThis novel is refreshingly different and contains a cornucopia of wonderful material and evocative descriptions
—— Good Book GuideThe best book I’ve read in ages… You have to read it.
—— Hilary Rose , The Times
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