Christina Gombar

Christina Gombar has worked for several Fortune 100 financial companies, some of which are no longer in business. She is writing a novel set on Wall Street.

Everybody knows: Kate Jennings

Christina Gombar, 22 August 2002

Fortysomething Cath, Australian, veteran of the barricades, self-described ‘bedrock feminist’ and ‘unreconstructed left-winger’, works for a down-town investment bank. Her much-loved husband, twenty-five years older, has Alzheimer’s, and for the first time in her life the free-spirit, freelance travel writer understands the need for real money. She becomes a...

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