Earning a Crust: Women and their Work

An essential career choice guide

What is it really like to be an architect or a chimney sweep? Is working as a life model sexy and glamorous or cold and boring? How does an embalmer cope with preserving her own relatives? And do chartered accountants secretly have it sussed?

This book is a lot more entertaining than any careers book has a right to be.
Peter Cross uses interview techniques acquired as a broadsheet journalist to speak to seventy five women about their work. It's ambitious scope is matched with powerful personal accounts of unusual and challenging careers in entertainment, health, catering, arts, traditional crafts, professions and trades.

This is not just an ideal gift for school leavers and recent graduates. Any woman fed up with her daily grind will find solace and solutions here.

Peter Cross is available for interview 020 7234 0476
He is the author of the companion book, Jobs for the Boys: Men and their Work

Both books, published by Management Books 2000, are available from Amazon and all good bookshops.