|summary='Song of the Skylark' has quite a cast of characters, and I found it a little difficult, at first, to keep track of everyone. Lizzie is the main protagonist; we meet her trying in vain to apply for new jobs after losing her previous one. We quickly learn that she was sacked for rather blatant immoral behaviour with her boss, a married man.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409159558</amazonuk>
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|author=Kate Earnshaw
|title=The Woman They Called The Machine
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Forty-three-year-old Lydia Mason has earned some unflattering nicknames in her time as a corporate lawyer for London-based Vertigen. On a previous project the staff called her 'The Machine', and others sometimes refer to her as 'Ms Terminator' and 'Snow White'. She wears only black, white and grey, and she seems very mechanical in her devotion to her routines. This undoubtedly makes her very good at her job. 'When the chips were down and you wanted something done, you went to Lydia.' But certain details make you wonder whether this character is soulless: 'She had not cried since 1979' and 'She rarely listened to music; she considered it irrelevant. There was no soundtrack to her life.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B017KHLA4K</amazonuk>
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