White Collar Girl

A Novel

De: Renée Rosen

Narrado por: Lauren Ezzo

The latest novel from the best-selling author of Dollface and What the Lady Wants takes us deep into the tumultuous world of 1950s Chicago where a female journalist struggles with the heavy price of ambition....

Every second of every day, something is happening. There’s a story out there buried in the muck, and Jordan Walsh, coming from a family of esteemed reporters, wants to be the one to dig it up. But it’s 1955, and the men who dominate the city room of the Chicago Tribune have no interest in making room for a female cub reporter. Instead Jordan is relegated to society news, reporting on Marilyn Monroe sightings at the Pump Room and interviewing secretaries for the White Collar Girl column.

Even with her journalistic legacy and connections to luminaries like Mike Royko, Nelson Algren, and Ernest Hemingway, Jordan struggles to be taken seriously. Of course, that all changes the moment she establishes a secret source inside Mayor Daley’s office and gets her hands on some confidential information. Now careers and lives are hanging on Jordan’s every word. But if she succeeds in landing her stories on the front page, there’s no guarantee she’ll remain above the fold....

©2015 Renée Rosen (P)2021 Penguin Audio

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“An unforgettable novel about an ambitious woman’s struggle to break into the male dominated newspaper world of the 1950s.” (Sara Gruen, New York Times best-selling author of At the Water’s Edge)

"White Collar Girl has it all - a plucky girl reporter, a colorful cast of newsroom characters, a gripping mystery, and, best of all, a terrific depiction of 1950s.” (Melanie Benjamin, New York Times best-selling author of The Aviator's Wife)

“A thoroughly enjoyable dive into 1950s Chicago.... Part historical drama, part mystery, part romance, and all cleverly told. An intriguing page-turner!” (Susan Meissner, author of Secrets of a Charmed Life)

Wonderful historical fiction.

Renee has a wonderful way of making history meld with her very interesting characters. She keeps situations changing to keep us interested.

Well written!

Renee Rosen did her homework for this one. Using actual events from Chicago's storied history, Ms Rosen creates a believable novel with a cast of characters you'd swear you met last night at the local watering hole. Jordan Walsh is a female journalist who wants a job on the city desk at the Tribune. Not quite starting in the mail room, she does start on the White Collar Girl and "women's interest" columns until she can prove herself both professionally as a writer and personally as "one of the guys". Think of it as Mad Men set in a newspaper office as told from a woman's point of view.

The truth about the fight to be seen as a journalist and not a female that is a journalist.

I never wanted to stop listening. A real page turner that kept me wanting more and fighting to not jump ahead to see how it all ends.

Not Rosen’s Best…by a long shot!

I don’t know if it was the story or the narration but this was just too much. Too much plot. Too much drama. Too much attitude. And the narrators voice moved from prim to covered in egg yolk. Gave it ten chapters and that’s all I could do.

Too much drama

The story had some validity but I kept wishing I were reading rather than listening. The reader’s overly dramatic interpretation was really annoying.

Narration is bad.

The narration was so bad I couldn’t get past the first chapter. It was like she was reading to kindergartners.

Couldn’t listen for more than 3 chapters.

The narrator is extremely annoying. Her voice is screechy and the entire first three chapters are read at high pitch and volume. No subtlety to any phrase. I couldn’t get past the third chapter.