Workhorse

At the turn of the millennium, Editorial Assistant Clodagh “Clo” Harmon has one goal: to climb the ranks at the world’s most prestigious fashion magazine. There’s just one problem—she doesn’t have the right pedigree. Clo is a hardworking “workhorse” surrounded by dazzling, well-connected “show horses” who glide to the top effortlessly, including her beguiling cubicle-mate, Davis Lawrence, daughter of a beloved but fading Broadway star. Then there’s Harry Wood, Davis’s boarding-school classmate and ambitious reporter with designs on his own media empire—he could be Clo’s ally, or the single obstacle between her and the career she craves.

Navigating a world of absurd setbacks, unexpected windfalls, and shocking reversals, Clo takes ever greater—and riskier—steps to claim her place in a realm where female ambition is still shadowed. But beneath the designer clothes, practiced manners, and carefully curated image, who is Clo really—and what does it mean to share her hunger for success?

Hilarious, incisive, and endlessly compelling, Workhorse is a brilliant exploration of wealth, beauty, influence, and the outrageous sacrifices women make to stake their claim in a world built to overlook them.