From Third-Rate Showgirl to British Prime Minister

[Hahahahaha, I checked with my editor. There's no issue with the premise. We'll do a realistic career-progression story; we'll start a separate book for the interstellar one!]

Blurb:

Lila Appleby is a rags-to-riches success story, the youngest Cabinet Secretary in British history, with a brilliant future ahead of her.

Then disaster strikes. Downing Street is caught in a media storm, and her predecessor throws her under the bus to save himself.

On the morning she is demoted and sent to report to the Swansea Driver and Vehicle Licensing Office, Lila opens her eyes and finds herself thirty years in the past.

Disillusioned, Lila decides to lie flat.

Ambition?

Ability?

What good are they, if you still end up being cast aside?

For now, filling her stomach is what matters.

Lila chooses a different path from the one she took before: she accepts an invitation from The Sun to pose for a photo shoot.

Fate is strange. As a Page Three girl, Lila meets benefactors and discovers opportunities she never encountered in her previous life, not even as Cabinet Secretary.

Dare to bet?

The chance to start over is right in front of her, and Lila is tempted.

This time, though, she'll take a different path.

Perhaps move into 10 Downing Street, for instance.

If she can become Cabinet Secretary, why not Prime Minister?

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Soon, Lila discovers that this world has changed in a few ways.

Britain has lost the Falklands War, Thatcher failed to win another term, and the new prime minister has passed measures to increase women's representation and other policies Lila has never even heard of.

Good. Lila lowers her head, hiding the excitement and madness in her eyes.

Now no one can stop her.

★ An alternate world, very loosely based on reality

★ The heroine is purely ambitious: two-faced and self-serving, and not a good person

★ A top player gets a new character and starts over. Tremble, Downing Street!

★ The heroine will return to university and graduate school to build connections

★ Inspired by the British TV series Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister

★ Lila: Power > everything

★ This isn't a specialist political-struggle novel. It has few technical terms; the author is just an enthusiast

★ Not traditional feminism or women's rights advocacy. This is simply a story about a protagonist who steamrolls everyone and rises to the top, with Hollywood-style plot developments and British humor

★ A medium-length story. The CP isn't important

Theme: In the face of ambition, everything is expendable