Laura S., who once studied communication theory, now enjoys being a housewife and mother. In an unexpected turn of events, she is one day offered a top-line job post. Hesitating at first, she then starts down the tricky path of simultaneously trying to balance children and a career. The author ironically depicts the daily power struggles/games, clashes between the sexes and every other problem a mother and housewife has to encounter before turning into a self-assertive business woman. Someone well capable of combining both private and business interests as well as treading on a few toes in the process if necessary.

About the author:

Elfriede Gerdenits was born in 1958. She is the mother of two children. She works as a consultant, boasting some 25,000 clients hence qualifying her as the most successsful career-training coach in Austria. She is a constant presence in the Austrian media world. "She was rather complicated as a young girl", says her mother. "But always very outgoing", adds her father, "she was always doing one educational course or another and worked very hard at it." "Then she suddenly became a mother and entrepreneur, and in addition started writing books", sighs her mother, "I wonder what will come next." Her first novel, "Quite Alone", was published in 2006.