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Picador
July 2013
On Sale: June 26, 2013
252 pages ISBN: 1250028396 EAN: 9781250028396 Kindle: B0096QZ5WM Hardcover / e-Book
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Contemporary | Fiction
βThe smartest financial novel since The Bonfire of the Vanities, and the first with a fully drawn female heroine.ββFrank 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 firmβs London trading floor. But it is January of 1991, and war in the Middle East is about to shake up the marketsβand maybe also change the course of her career.
The firmβs 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 playβbut his price tag is Geriβs 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.
 Media BuzzMarketplace - PRI - July 11, 2013
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