Told through a series of increasingly frantic e-mails to her mentor, E-Mails from the Edge traces the circuitous career of Constance Beaman, MBA, a middling middle manager at a mega-multinational corporation.Constance works in a world she never encountered in business school: the real world. She is bounced among a kaleidoscopic assortment of bosses, squeezed through the merger ringer, shaken by excruciating exercises in team building, and forced to exude passion against her will.Constance remains committed to a life of urgent deliverables, key learnings, and continuous self-improvement until she discovers that the daily grind can have deadly consequences. Her mindset forever impacted, Constance veers off her career path and into a series of outrageous acts that mock the corporation's will to power and celebrate a passion that refuses to be compromised.

Lynne Everatt writes a monthly column for the Globe and Mail called "E-Mails From The Edge" which delights readers with its hilarious and insightful take on corporate life. She worked for fifteen years in the middle management ranks of finance, marketing, and market research, and is fascinated by the ways in which corporations are like hermetic experiments in human behaviour that frequently go awry. Lynne has Master of Business Administration, Bachelor of Commerce, and Bachelor of Arts degrees. E-Mails from the Edge is her first book and she lives in Oakville, Ontario.

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"A novel of addictive hilarity ... a pitch-perfect portrait of a contemporary organization." — Barbara Moses Ph.D., Dish and the Good News about Careers