Business As Usual is a delightful illustrated novel in letters from Hilary Fane, an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of her surgeon fiancée.

First published in 1932, this illustrated novel tells the story through letters of Hilary Fane, who is determined to support herself in London for a year. Working in a department store, she must enforce modernising systems on her entrenched colleagues.