This is the story of Lucy Doyle, a red-haired and hot-tempered London Irish girl with her eyes on the prize- and young men’s trousers. Her family have got her a job in a Parochial House in North London for the summer, between leaving school and going to university, but she signs up as an office temp, faking her reference and chancing her luck. Along with fellow recruits – the ladylike but filthy Bobbie and the completely dirty Sophie – this cheeky ‘flower of Erin’ carves a swathe of debauchery through London’s office land, collecting lovers, outraging her bosses and drinking far too much as she causes havoc in the way only a bad girl can