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Be a good girl, Valerie - Marcia van Zeller

Be a good girl, Valerie - Marcia van Zeller

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Title: Be a good girl, Valerie
Author: Marcia van Zeller
Format: Brand new paperback
ISBN: 9780645497627
Release Date: July 2025

Valerie was quite happy slipping into invisibility until her Gen Z co-worker gets fired for saying ‘no’ to the boss’s wandering hands. With a sharp tongue, dry humour and a spine of steel, Valerie fights back, dredging up truths from 1978 that never really went away. Some secrets stay buried, but Valerie’s done being quiet.

• Feminism, workplace power, truth-telling
• Australian workplace, then and now
• Wry, gutsy, quietly furious
• Fearless, darkly funny, sharp as a tack
• One older woman’s fight to protect another, and herself
• Perfect for fans of Chanel Contos and Helen Garner’s gritty social commentary

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When Valerie, now in her sixties, learns that her Gen Z co-worker, Anna, has effectively been fired for rejecting the boss’s advances, Valerie becomes her champion, and so ensures that justice will prevail. But it brings back traumatic memories of when Valerie herself was the victim of sexual assault when working as an aspiring TV reporter in 1970s London. Exposing the unfair consequences of saying ‘no’ in the workplace, the book vividly and with warm humour illustrates the power of standing up for another woman’s rights, and your own.

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