The first woman in the UK to launch a firm of outplacement consultants has written a racy book about an advertising executive

Pauline Hyde who started the business in 1987 sold it ten years later, after opening 35 offices in nine different countries.

The book called Midas Man stars Robert Paget, a seductive advertising executive who gets fired by a jealous chairman before racing through a world of head hunters and beautiful women.

Hyde also wrote three books for children about Eddie, the extra special pigeon, as well as Ex Culina, a family cookery book.  She lives in South West London.