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DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'VE GOT TILL IT'S GONE

Gemma Crisp

In the tradition of Lauren Weisberger comes the follow up to Gemma’s successful debut, Be Careful What You Wish For.
Nina Morey is back. With her glamorous life and a career on the rise, could life get any better? After surviving a less-than-ideal start as a hot-shot editor in the competitive magazine industry, Nina Morey has picked herself up, shaken herself off and is back, ready to do deals with the devil in her job as editor of Juice, a hot weekly celebrity gossip magazine. In the cut-throat world of weekly trash mags, Nina thrives on the adrenalin of out-bidding her rivals for scandalous photo sets, scoring exclusive rights to A-list weddings and having the most influential celebrity managers on speed-dial. But in her personal life, things aren't quite as glossy. Just as she's back on the single scene, all her friends start getting up the duff faster than you can say, 'Welcome to Nappy Valley.' While Nina spends her days managing her magazine's multi-million-dollar budget and following Kim Kardashian's every move, they're managing their miniscule maternity leave allowance and stalking their local daycare waiting list. Suddenly she feels like she's being rejected from a club she doesn't even want to join. With a reality TV show in the works, insufferable celebrity publicists making her life hell and a Facebook feed overflowing with endless baby updates, Nina heads to New York on an impromptu girls' trip to get away from it all – little does she know that things are about to get a whole lot more complicated. Gemma Crisp developed her love of books and magazines while growing up on a sheep farm in the middle of Tasmania in the prehistoric days before the internet. It wasn't until she'd hit the bright lights of London some years later that she realised she could get paid to write about mascara, threesomes and celebrities (not necessarily in that order!) After acing her first magazine internship, thanks to being a photocopying and coffee-fetching ninja, Gemma moved to Sydney and has
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Published 2014-01-01 by Allen&Unwin