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Walking with Elephants
by Karen S. Bell
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Suze Hall is at a crossroads. Her nemesis at work, Wanda, has been promoted and now will be her boss. Her husband, Bob, is leaving her and the three kids for a six-month sabbatical down under. To top it off, her best friend, Marcia, is missing in action—playing footsie with some new boyfriend!
Adding to this disaster stew, David, the gorgeous hunk who broke her young-girl’s heart has coincidentally popped back into her life and has something she desperately needs to keep her job.
Walking with Elephants, a lighthearted slice-of- life story, brings to the table the serious work/family issues facing women today. It explores the modern dichotomy of a workplace that is filled with homemakers who still must cook, clean, carpool on nights and weekends, shop for prom dresses, and “create” the holidays—such as Suze. But it also is filled with women who have the same drive as men, have no family responsibilities, and will do what ever it takes to get ahead.
So step into the shoes of Suze Hall and commiserate over workplace politics, titillate your sexual fantasies, ride the wave of a working mother, and fall-down laughing.
A Word from the Author
After my last child reached school age, I went to work. We had just moved to a different state, I had completed my master’s degree a few years prior and had to drop out of a MBA program when we moved. Come the first day of school, everyone got up and walked out the door. There I was alone in my new house and new town. Now what? But I was lucky, my husband’s new boss recommended me to the marketing department of this international accounting firm headquartered in my town in NJ. And so my career began and the material for my debut novel was sealed. I discovered that women are mean to each other in the workplace—the nightmare of high school is alive and well in corporate America. That innovative new ideas are threatening to the status quo and that I had a talent for rubbing people the wrong way. I gleefully created my fictional characters as a composite of my fellow coworkers. My children and husband became the laboratory rats to provide the material of the MC’s family dynamic. There was enough stuff to write an entire book. Wow!
(Karen S. Bell, August 2019)