Celebrating office jokes, office lunches, and such harmless pleasures as leaning on office radiators and sharing one's troubles with one's colleagues, this book discusses work, how to get it, how to avoid it and how to enjoy it. The author also wrote "How Not to Rear a Perfect Child".
Libby Purves is a journalist and author who has been writing for The Times since 1982. A previous columnist of the year and author of 12 novels and non-fiction books, she was for 40 years a BBC Radio 4 broadcaster after becoming the Today programme’s first woman and youngest presenter.