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Zesty, intense and thrilling - a wonderful achievement. This is a jarring exposé of the satisfactions and brutality of the workplace. The joys of career success, the power struggles with colleagues, the humiliations and bruised sense of worth. How ambition can become a trap, and how structure and mental absorption can be an escape from family difficultiesLEILA ABOULELAWritten with the urgency of a thriller and the distress signal of an allegory, At Sea is a smart, razor-sharp takedown of the machismo of Big Oil and what it is to be a woman operating in such a hostile industry. Abdel-Magied tel...Read More