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2000s: Two Letters Four lives It s time to take sides.
The Fall Out
What you need to know before your trail
The dust has barely settled on the banking crisis when two letters arrive in the offices of German Commercial Bank DKB.
Kate O Brien joined the bank one month earlier. Back to work after a short break to have her children, she doesn t want stress, she doesn t want drama, she just wants to do her job and go home. But it soon becomes apparent that she might not be the only one with her own agenda.
Mary Lawlor has had enough. She has worked at DKB long enough to be able to see that it s happening again, and this time she won t stand for it. She is sick of being taken advantage of and, frankly, it s got to stop.
Leona Blake is in charge. She knows that she is not popular and, up to now, she hasn t really cared. She has a job to do and she is going to do it no matter what the cost. Only now, as her whole world starts to implode, does she finally realise that the price just might have been too high.
Olivia Sharpe is finally starting to write things down. She has been treated very badly, and now is her chance to take control of her life again and get justice for both herself and her children. What happened to her was wrong and someone needs to pay. Don t they?
Travel Guide
Dublin
SwirlandThread – for #IrishWritersWed
Set in a fictional bank in Dublin’s Financial Services Centre, we are introduced into the lives of four women, all trying to balance their work/life relationships. All very ambitious women, Mary, Kate, Leona and Olivia, all with very different agendas in life.
The book opens with the arrival of two letters which shake everything up in the bank.
‘Bad news still always arrives by post’
The Fallout gives the reader an insight into the daily pressures of the working mother in an industry that looks for all or nothing. An industry that doesn’t take kindly to sick children or tired mothers.
Is it possible for women to have it all??
Something has to give and as Margaret Scott portrays so well in this book, no one person can truly have it all.
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B) Dublin - The IFSC building
C) Dublin - The Samuel Beckett Bridge
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Fall Out
Destination: Dublin Author/Guide: Margaret Scott Departure Time: 2000s
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