Harriet Walker Books

“This debut thriller reads like The Devil Wears Prada meets Single White Female. I couldn’t put it down.”—Catherine Steadman, author of Something in the Water and Mr. Nobody She’s borrowed your life. But what if she decides to keep it? Glamorous Margot Jones is the fashion editor at glossy magazine Haute. Pregnant with her first child, Margot’s carefully curated life is the object of other women’s envy—who wouldn’t want her successful career, loving husband, beautiful house, and stylish wardrobe? Maggie, a freelance journalist, certainly knows she doesn’t measure up. But when she gets the temp job covering Margot’s maternity leave, Maggie seizes the chance to live a flashier life—even if it’s only for a few months. But the simultaneous arrival of Margot’s baby and a brutal end to her oldest friendship sends Margot into a spiral of insecurity and suspicion; normal preoccupations of new motherhood turn into dark and frightening paranoia. Who is the vicious online troll mocking Margot’s facade of perfection and threatening to expose a dark secret she’s spent years concealing? Are Maggie’s newfound ambitions and plucky enthusiasm as innocent as they seem? And what happens when Margot is ready to return to her old life—especially if Maggie doesn’t want to leave?

What do you do when the wedding of your dreams turns into a nightmare?

When it comes to dress, less can most definitely be more. In this striking new book, journalist Harriet Walker surveys one of the most wide-reaching movements in fashion. Minimalism has its roots in the early twentieth century, when women’s clothes became pared down and practical after centuries of complex construction. Walker reviews the work of designers who, over the decades, have adopted minimalist principles in their work, from Coco Chanel, who liberated women from Edwardian formal dress, to Donna Karan and Jil Sander, whose workwear offered women a feminine but credible alternative to power dressing; and from the avant-garde style of Japanese masters Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto to contemporary interpretations by Gareth Pugh, Roland Mouret, COS and Zara. With 250 colour illustrations, including specially commissioned photographs, Less is More is the engaging story of an abiding aesthetic that has subtly shaped modern fashion.

Was Frauen Frauen antun Alle beneiden Margot – um ihr perfektes Äußeres, ihren tollen Ehemann und vor allem um ihren Traumjob als Moderedakteurin. Doch als Margot schwanger wird, bricht die äußere Fassade zunehmend zusammen: Maggie, ihre Elternzeitvertretung, läuft ihr von Anfang an den Rang ab und drängt sich immer mehr in alle Bereiche von Margots Leben. Auch das Zerwürfnis mit ihrer besten Freundin Winnie setzt Margot zu, denn Winnie, die ihr in der Jugend schon übel mitgespielt hat, kennt Margots schlimmstes Geheimnis … Als sich die Zeichen mehren, dass Winnie und Maggie sich gegen Margot verbünden, stellt sich immer mehr die Frage: Könnte ihre Tochter in Gefahr sein? Oder ist die Bedrohung, die sie empfindet, nur Einbildung?