Penny Avis and Joanna Berry continue their Never Mind the Botox series with the second book which focuses on Rachel. The series is about four professional women working on the sale of a high-profile cosmetic surgery business. The synopsis of Never Mind the Botox: Rachel says: "Rachel Altman is a corporate financier with a prestigious accounting firm who's desperately trying to keep on the straight and narrow. Hopelessly led astray by her bar-diving boyfriend, she gets the chance to turn things around when her boss gives her the break she's been waiting for. But when the deal doesn't go as planned Rachel panics, sparking off a chain of betrayal and lies that threatens to ruin both her love life and career." Never Mind the Botox: Rachel is out in January. Books on Stella and Meredith are to follow.

Britons Penny Avis and Joanna Berry have joined forces to create a four-part series called Never Mind The Botox. Centred around four professional women working on the sale of a high-profile cosmetic surgery business, each book reveals how the women cope with one of the most challenging deals of their careers and the dramatic impact it has on their personal lives. The synopsis of the first novel Never Mind the Botox: Alex, out in June, says: "Alex Fisher is a high-flying lawyer close to making partner and busy planning her perfect wedding to Elliott. But life suddenly becomes complicated when she's faced with a hot junior lawyer on her team and an actress threatening to jeopardise the deal by exposing her dodgy surgery. Soon Alex is forced into a series of impossible choices that are all inextricably linked and life will never be the same again." The second book about corporate financier Rachel will be released in November. Books on cosmetic surgeon Stella and banker Meredith will be out in 2012. Berry was a solicitor who specialised in media and entertainment law, while Avis trained as an accountant. On the authors' website, the pair said they met through their husbands. "Penny mentioned the idea of writing a book about a woman working in the City, when Jo revealed she had always wanted to write a book about a lawyer working on a deal who met her partner over a boardroom table. The idea grew from there. We knew that four women had been used successfully in other media, such as Sex and the City and Mistresses. We also loved the idea of writing about a cosmetic surgery business and felt that it tapped into the current zeitgeist."

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