- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd; 1st Edition edition (5 April 1984)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0413530809
- ISBN-13: 978-0413530806
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,246,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Antonia's life changes when she finds out that neither her husband nor the increasingly automated offices of London need her anymore. "Here Today" won the 1985 Fawcett Book Prize and is being reissued to coincide with the publication of the author's new novel "Daddy's Girls".
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This was written a few years ago as word processors were just being introduced into offices and many feared they would mean less jobs for women working as typists, secretaries etc.
Antonia and Catherine meet while registering for work in a temping agency called "Here Today". Antonia has been a temporary secretary all her life, Catherine is a middle class woman looking for office work after redundancy. Antonia likes not being committed to being a temp, whereas Catherine soon looks to unionise the women working like this for better pay and conditions. Reluctantly, Antonia becomes involved.
But life takes a very disturbing turn for both women, and they are forced to reexamine their preconceptions.
This is a very funny book. The plot is strange but the characters are brilliant, and although computers have changed temping, the description of the attitudes of those who run temping agencies is still very accurate now.
Also of interest to those who enjoyed Serena Mackesy's book "The Temp"
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