I Am Ella, Buy Me

'I am a ginger tom. I am a boy racer. I am a housewife. I am a pain in the arse.'

The first line sets the tone for Joan's debut novel, I am Ella. Buy me, a fast-paced romantic comedy set in Soho's mad, bad Adland in the sexist 80s. Ella is a woman in a man's world, trying to dodge her sleazy boss and make her way to the top. Faced with losing her job or sleeping with him, Ella turns to her friend, Adam Hart.

Can love help her go from a girl in the firing line to a woman calling the shots?

Based on Joan's experiences asa copywriter in top London advertising agencies, this fun tale is set against a backdrop of Thatcher's Britain where money trumps morals and lust is a must.