“The smartest financial novel since The Bonfire of the
Vanities, and the first with a fully drawn female
heroine.”—Frank Partnoy, bestselling author of
F.I.A.S.C.O.: The Inside Story of a Wall Street
Trader and Wait: The Art and Science of
Delay
Longlisted for the Orange
Prize
A hard-living investment banker has three
days to decide her destiny in this thrilling novel.
It has been 182 days of vodka and insomnia since
Geri Molloy got dumped. A twenty-eight-year-old investment
banker with a rare knack for numbers, Geri counts the days
since her breakup with the same determination that has made
her serious capital on her firm’s London trading floor. But
it is January of 1991, and war in the Middle East is about
to shake up the markets—and maybe also change the
course of her career.
The firm’s biggest client is
Felix Mann, a reclusive hedge fund manager in Hong Kong, who
will only talk to Geri. But Geri is being pushed to her
breaking point, and several rivals are hungry for a seat at
the table. When she finds herself caught up in a high-stakes
takeover, Felix is game for the power play—but his price tag
is Geri’s future.
At once fiercely intelligent
and utterly gripping, Aifric Campbell's On the Floor
is a sharp-edged story about love and money, the cruel
appraisals we make of one another, and what it really means
for a woman to take control of her life.
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