Workhorse by Palmer, Caroline

Author: Palmer, Caroline

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 15 January 2026 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 560 pages
162 x 243 x 48 | 802g

‘Razor-sharp and deliciously wry’ COCO MELLORS

‘Funny, tender, thrillingly dark.’ HEATHER DARWENT

‘Exhilarating and beguiling’ OLIVIA PETTER

An astonishing portrait of a city on the brink of a dizzying new era and a story about a young woman who will do anything to infiltrate the rarefied world of New York’s fashion elite.

New York City, 2001.

Editorial Assistant Clodagh Clo Harmon wants nothing more than to rise through the ranks at the worlds most prestigious fashion magazine. But theres just one problem: she doesnt have the right pedigree. Clo is a workhorse in a world of beautiful, wealthy, impossibly well-connected show horses and it seems that her fortun