Hard Copy

by Emma Lee-Potter

A fast and furious look at the brash, bitchy truth behind the headlines from an author who's been there...
Anna Armitage is determined to reach the top as a news photo-journalist. She's got the talent. She's got the drive. All she needs is the luck...

Sam Turner, former Daily-News high-flyer, is on the slide. Too expensive to fire, the new management are hoping late call-outs to cover lousy stories will force him to resign .

So the Bella Fraser fiasco is the last thing either of them needs. The novice and the old hack screw up big time- and the supermodel splash goes to the Chronicle instead. But a great partnership has been born. Together, Anna and Sam just survive megalomaniac proprietors, ruthless news editors, a hawkish peer intent on introducing a privacy law- and Bella Fraser. Oh, and they might topple a Home Secretary or so along the way...

Genres: Fiction

307 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Velvetink · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a quick and easy read. Not great literature but the setting reminded me of my old days working for a national newspaper - fairly true to life depicting old school journalism - before spellcheck and digital film. Pub scenes with journos passed out in corners and sad sub-editors dying on the job at their desks made me cringe and cry a little. Did I really live like this. Hell yeah. I miss it. The only minus - the ending was too perfect, the snapper gets a great job and a boyfriend, and the journo rekindles his marriage. Why does there always have to be a happy ending - too Barbara Cartland for me..



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