Sarah had spent six months in meetings.
A recruitment agency director from Birmingham, she had been to her accountant. She had been to her bank. She had sat through two consultations with an Insolvency Practitioner her accountant had recommended. By the end of the autumn, she had spoken to more professionals about her company’s financial position than she had spoken to family members in a year. And in all of it — in every meeting, every phone call, every carefully worded letter — she had not, at any point, felt that anybody in the room was on her side.
Then a friend gave her a copy of RIGGED: The Directors’ Survival Manual.
“I felt like everyone was against me — my accountant, HMRC, the Insolvency…