Whisper Network
On sale
16th April 2020
Price: £8.99
Honest, timely and completely thrilling’ REESE WITHERSPOON
‘Furious and relevant… I loved it so much’ CLARE MACKINTOSH
***THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***
Don’t miss Chandler Baker’s utterly addictive new novel. THE HUSBANDS is available to pre-order now
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‘Ms. Sandberg was right about something. We had to lean in. It was the only way to hear the whispers…’
Sloane, Ardie, Grace and Rosalita have worked in the same legal office for years. The sudden death of the firm’s CEO means their boss, Ames, will likely take over the entire company. Each of the women has a different relationship with Ames, who has always been surrounded by whispers about how he treats women. Those whispers have been ignored, swept under the rug, hidden away by those in charge.
But the world has changed, and the women are watching this latest promotion for Ames differently.
This time, they’ve decided enough is enough.
Sloane and her colleagues’ decision to take a stand sets in motion something catastrophic and unstoppable: lies will be uncovered, secrets will be exposed and not everyone will survive. All their lives – as women, colleagues, mothers, adversaries – will be changed for ever.
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‘Add another great book to your beach bag! This story has a workplace murder mystery that happens in today’s #MeToo era. It’s honest, timely and completely thrilling – I was so surprised to find out who the murderer was!’
REESE WITHERSPOON
‘It’s The Firm meets 9 To 5. This is a juicy air-punch of a novel’
ALEXANDRA HEMINSLEY, GRAZIA
‘Slick, smart, fierce, it’s Big Little Lies set against attorneys and recast in the light of #MeToo. Relevant, resonant and rage inducing’
SARAH VAUGHAN
‘A barnstorming modern novel’
EVENING STANDARD MAGAZINE
‘Smart, witty and scarily relateable… this is going to get everyone talking’
FABULOUS MAGAZINE
‘Witty and timely will make you cheer for sisterhood’
LIV CONSTANTINE
‘A timely and apposite #MeToo novel, but also a clever thriller, which highlights the many ways in which women are discriminated against in the workplace’
SARA MANNING RED MAGAZINE
‘A primal roar of a novel. A fantastic read’
RILEY SAGER
‘A thriller for the #metoo era’
LUCY MANGAN, STYLIST
‘Furious and relevant… I loved it so much’ CLARE MACKINTOSH
***THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***
Don’t miss Chandler Baker’s utterly addictive new novel. THE HUSBANDS is available to pre-order now
_____________
‘Ms. Sandberg was right about something. We had to lean in. It was the only way to hear the whispers…’
Sloane, Ardie, Grace and Rosalita have worked in the same legal office for years. The sudden death of the firm’s CEO means their boss, Ames, will likely take over the entire company. Each of the women has a different relationship with Ames, who has always been surrounded by whispers about how he treats women. Those whispers have been ignored, swept under the rug, hidden away by those in charge.
But the world has changed, and the women are watching this latest promotion for Ames differently.
This time, they’ve decided enough is enough.
Sloane and her colleagues’ decision to take a stand sets in motion something catastrophic and unstoppable: lies will be uncovered, secrets will be exposed and not everyone will survive. All their lives – as women, colleagues, mothers, adversaries – will be changed for ever.
_____________
‘Add another great book to your beach bag! This story has a workplace murder mystery that happens in today’s #MeToo era. It’s honest, timely and completely thrilling – I was so surprised to find out who the murderer was!’
REESE WITHERSPOON
‘It’s The Firm meets 9 To 5. This is a juicy air-punch of a novel’
ALEXANDRA HEMINSLEY, GRAZIA
‘Slick, smart, fierce, it’s Big Little Lies set against attorneys and recast in the light of #MeToo. Relevant, resonant and rage inducing’
SARAH VAUGHAN
‘A barnstorming modern novel’
EVENING STANDARD MAGAZINE
‘Smart, witty and scarily relateable… this is going to get everyone talking’
FABULOUS MAGAZINE
‘Witty and timely will make you cheer for sisterhood’
LIV CONSTANTINE
‘A timely and apposite #MeToo novel, but also a clever thriller, which highlights the many ways in which women are discriminated against in the workplace’
SARA MANNING RED MAGAZINE
‘A primal roar of a novel. A fantastic read’
RILEY SAGER
‘A thriller for the #metoo era’
LUCY MANGAN, STYLIST
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Reviews
Big Little Lies in a Texas power suit...[Baker] captures keenly what it means to be a modern woman in an old boys' world.
Big Little Lies meets Working Girl
[A] gripping thriller about #MeToo in the workplace - pack Whisper Network by Chandler Baker for a page-turning read'
This book is gonna be huge... Topical, unflinching and sharp
What do you get if you mix Big Little Lies with the #MeToo scandal? This perfect-for-now tale of four women who take a stand against their misogynistic boss, with results none of them could have foreseen. A barnstorming modern novel
A great read . . . This has a huge buzz in the book world already and deservedly so! You'll wanna take this one on vacation with you
A timely and apposite #MeToo novel, but also a clever thriller, which highlights the many ways in which women are discriminated against in the workplace
In the midst of a police investigation and meetings involving suits and counter suits, Baker works in succinct statements about the quandaries of modern women: torn between motherhood and work, plagued with guilt about nearly everything, suppressing their femininity while being undervalued because of their sex, and schooled in secrecy. These truths serve to bolster the plot, not distract from it, and the result is a compulsively readable mystery with a strong message. Don't miss it.
A thriller for the #metoo era
A delectable read
Slick, smart, fierce, it's Big Little Lies set against attorneys and recast in the light of #metoo. Relevant, resonant and rage inducing.
Whisper Network manages to be provocative, timely, and a ripping good read: A murder mystery and a manifesto all rolled up into one. I couldn't put it down.
Don't be fooled by its title. Whisper Network is a primal roar of a novel. Furiously funny and just plain furious, it's as timely as today's headlines and as big-hearted as your best work friend. A fantastic read.
You'll recognise every character in Whisper Network. Furious and relevant writing: the ultimate #metoo book. I loved it so much.
The best thrillers are those that leave us wondering if we're actually reading fiction. Chandler Baker has given us that kind of book.
A clever whodunit that confronts what it's like to a working woman right now
Smart, witty and scarily relatable in this #MeToo era, this is going to get everyone talking.
It's Nine to Five on speed. This preternaturally timely novel - provocative, disturbing, and (dare I say it?) surprisingly fun - is serrated as a kitchen knife, and twice as sharp. I read it with horror. I read it with pleasure. I'll read it again.
This is a poolside treat. One of those novels you put down reluctantly and long to get back to all day... A great read, brilliantly written, in which class, betrayal and friendship take centre stage.
Woah. What an incredible page turner. Simply loved Whisper Network
Compelling and disturbing. Pierces right to the centre of the current zeitgeist.
Viciously funny and compulsively readable... [Whisper Network] is a breezy page-turner of a book, which is the brilliance of it: Under the froth is an unmistakable layer of justified rage.
Add another great book to your beach bag! This story has a workplace murder mystery that happens in today's #MeToo era. It's honest, timely and completely thrilling - I was so surprised to find out who the murderer was!
Baker's caustic debut - about four women working in corporate America who all have secrets about their new male boss - might just make the strongest claim yet for the thriller of the #MeToo era.
A fierce and funny #MeToo thriller set in the corporate world
Exciting and sprinkled with razor-sharp insights about what it is to be a woman today, Whisper Network is a witty and timely story that will make you cheer for sisterhood.
Part work-based thriller, part feminist call to arms... It's The Firm meets 9-5. This is a juicy air-punch of a novel