How corporate leaders and decision-makers create a culture that can have a major influence on our happiness, comfort, and success on the job is just one of a number of today’s news stories Lucy grapples with when she turns thirty.Īn extraordinary day. A slight problem to foil her plans is her do-anything-to-get-ahead agency competitor, “Supervillain” Chase, is courting an even potentially bigger client, an NBA Laker’s superstar. ”Secure promotion” to senior publicist.“Lock down Lily Chou,” the “hottest new scarlet in Hollywood” with the “Oscar buzz,” so she can.Lucy is really good at her job, so much so that the top two things out of four on the list she’s drafted that will make her milestone day “perfect” are job-related: Lucy loves her junior publicity job at a “Hollywood institution” that promotes movie stars and smooths over celebrity scandals, J & J Public. As a psychologist for both academic and corporate worlds, she’s created a protagonist who’s intensely career-focused, showing us she understands how a woman’s mind and heart work in high-powered, cutthroat business environments. Which explains why James brings more to her debut novel than literary and pop culture smarts. How could it be when the author, Holly James, is also a psychologist? On the surface, Nothing But the Truth has a light-hearted, straightforward premise – outlandish, witty, romantic – yet that’s not everything going on.
Lucy Green wakes up on her 30 th birthday and discovers that even when she tries her tongue, physically, won’t let her say anything but the truth. Breaking free of expectations and limitations (Hollywood, California on one contemporary day): What happens if you can no longer tell a lie? Not even a fib not to offend?
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