Falling Sideways

There has never been anyshortage of business at the Tank, a high-profile firm in Copenhagen. There are round-tablemeetings to attend, circular memos to write, colleagues to indirectly undermine.But when the Tank's nefarious CEO announces a period of downsizing, everyone isexposed and the game-playing begins in deadly earnest.Top executive FrederickBreathwaite suspects his days might be numbered, and is frantically trying toensure a foothold on the career ladder for his son Jes. Harald Jaeger,estranged from his wife and daughters, harbours desperate passions for analarming number of women (including, dangerously, the Tank's married financialofficer). Lost in his amorous fantasies, he has somehow managed to catch theCEO's eye - as a possible replacement for Breathwaite. Meanwhile the CEO's sonAdam should be following in his father's alpha-male footsteps but instead ishead-over-heels in puppy love with his au pair. And in a nearby shoe repairshop, Jes, who personally can't imagine anything worse than his father'scorporate life, is pursuing a very different kind of future.As the city settles into autumn,a season of brittle days and foreboding nights, the impending downsizing causesa ripple effect that touches not just every employee in the Tank but theirspouses, children and lovers as well. Sharp, funny but remarkably tender, FallingSideways is a shrewdly observed tale of ambition and anxiety, ofbackstabbing and backsliding, of office politics and family affairs.