Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview... high-strung marketing executive for Empirical Press, a very big and very important book publisher. She’s surrounded by young, eager assistants and editors 20 years her junior who constantly befuddle her. Little does she know that Liza, the newest employee at Empirical, isn’t actually 26, but a much-closer-to-Diane 40 years old.
Personality... serious, perfectionist, and ballsy. Diana didn’t make it to the top by being nice, but sometimes she secretly feels a softer side might help. Like, with Charles, the hot editor she has an unrequited crush on. Can he fall for someone so severe? But as a woman in a highly competitive workplace, Diana has made a decision to cultivate the persona that terrifies everyone around her.
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40-year old Liza, a suddenly single mother, is trying to get back into the working world, only to find it's nearly impossible to start at the bottom at her age. When a chance encounter with a young guy at a bar convinces her she looks younger than she is, Liza tries to pass herself off as 26? with the help of a makeover, courtesy of her best friend Maggie. Armed with new confidence, she lands a job as an assistant to the temperamental Diana and teams up with her new co-worker and twentysomething Kelsey to make it in the career of her dreams. Now she just has to make sure no one finds out the secret only she and Maggie share.
