All Rachel Marcus wants is a cool job, a guy who has all his own teeth and a decent cup of tea. Is that too much to ask? Rachel Marcus has a great life and an amazing job as a top copywriter at an advertising agency in Johannesburg, or rather Rachel Marcus HAD a great life and an amazing job as a top copywriter at an advertising agency in Johannesburg - right up until she got fired. Forced to sell everything she owns and leave Joburg in a hurry, Rachel decides to move to New York City, where she plans to make a fabulous life for herself and prove to everyone back home that she's not a complete disaster. Except the only job she can find is at a crap ad agency, with a hippie freak for a boss and an alcoholic drug addict for an art director. The only apartment she can afford is...
Paige Nick has been a copywriter in advertising for the last 16 years, on brands like Allan Gray, Kulula.com BMW, Nashua, Cosmopolitan, Windhoek Lager and Levi’s. A Million Miles From Normal is 99% fictional, although many of the characters are an amalgamation of the people Paige has worked with and clients she has met over the years. A Million Miles from Normal was released by Penguin in April 2010 and in May 2011 Penguin released Paige’s second book This Way Up. Follow Paige on Twitter. http://www.amillionmilesfromnormal.com
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