High Heels and Low Blows
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley March 21, 2024
Author Jill Valentine
Distributor: Fair Pay Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-925914-88-7; 978-1-925914-89-4 (ePub)
Publisher: Fair Play Publishing. Imprint Popcorn Press.
Release Date: March 2024
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Jill Valentine has captured the very real, cut throat world of Corporate life in High Heels and Low Blows with her modern day CEO Bee Bloom, a woman admired by her staff and many other Companies, for her positive leadership and the big market share Curban Capitol has in Australian Investment Banking.
She has worked hard to expand the business and now the Board want to appoint a new Chairman, none other than Max Magnifico, or the Gladiator, as he is known: a man who has a blameless background, lives a seriously high life and has built a fearsome reputation of achievement in the Industry.
Bee is very nervous about the appointment and is not looking forward to working with this human dynamo. As the days pass, she discovers her fears are well founded.
Rosie Reid, owner of Reid & Co Counsel, otherwise known as ‘the Fixer’ in the world of PR, Media calamities, is exhausted; she really is beyond wanting to fix every mess made by men in very high positions.
Her latest client to end up in a huge mess is Hugo Hamilton, a man accused of sexual harassment of a young staff member, is a predator of young women employed throughout his restaurant and hotel chain.
Lucy Love, otherwise known as ‘wifey’ to her husband Hugo Hamilton is brow beaten, lonely and horrified by her husband’s actions and lies. She is dreading having to tell her two daughters what their father has been accused of, but knows she needs to do so quickly, before they hear it in the Media. She drinks far too much, relying on prescribed medication to get her through the long, lonely, days.
When these three woman come together through a series of adverse events, they set out to level the playing field, but while they are planning their future moves, each of them are forced to face some home truths about who they are, what they have become and what changes they need to make in their personal and business lives to be better people.
High Heels and Low Blows very cleverly captures the world of male chauvinistic behaviour, sadly still prevalent in today’s Business world, or for that matter and any world of Commerce and Politics, with aplomb.
Having seen this behaviour being played out throughout the Media in Australia over the past five years, Jill Valentine has not had to look far to find an excellent plotline for this vastly entertaining read, one of which any woman who climbs the Corporate ladder, or chooses to make a mark in any form of Business Enterprise, will relate too, all too readily.