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Ballantine August 2008 On Sale: July 29, 2008 368 pages ISBN: 0345492390 EAN: 9780345492395 Trade Size Buy at

"A mother-daughter story as much as a fun, fast-paced Finding Mr. Right tale"

Reviewed by Patricia Woodside
Posted January 15, 2009

Women's Fiction Contemporary

BACHELOR DEGREE is as much a mother-daughter story as it is a finding-Mr.-Right story, and both stories are delightful.

Divorcee and art gallery assistant curator Samantha Krasner, at 38, has a handle on her life. Except for her twice-widowed mother, who is on a hunt to find a Mr. Right for both of them, and defies control. The only way Samantha can get around her mother's constant pushiness is to find a man herself. She does when she meets Blake Hamilton, the hottest new European artist, one that Samantha's overbearing boss must have for their gallery.

Samantha and Blake develop a hot and heavy long-distance romance, of which her mother approves even though she sets Samantha up with New York's most eligible OB/GYN for an appointment and hopefully much more. Samantha, wise, aware and so very snarky, knows there's something just off kilter with both of these men. But it's not until after she is completely enthralled, when long-held secrets and lies erupt, that she discovers just what that is.

If you can't get enough of the New York scene and attitude, you'll completely enjoy BACHELOR DEGREE, as I did. Even if you'd prefer to dial the snark back a wee bit, you'll find a fun, fast-paced story about a woman who's looking for love and been around enough to know what she wants yet possesses a reasonable degree of caution, and who has learned over the years how to manage her relationship with her domineering mother in a way that works for her.

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SUMMARY

“Underneath it all–designer clothes and moxie aside–my mother was more than any daughter should ever have to handle.”
- from Bachelor Degree

Strolling the city sidewalks of Manhattan’s posh Upper East Side are a bevy of well-dressed, attractive, and notably eligible single men, but can Samantha Krasner snag one before the competition does? Finding Mr. Right would certainly help keep her mother at bay. After all, the only thing separating their two apartments is Central Park. Not big enough.

A successful gallery diva who must answer to a boss from hell, thirty-eight-year-old Samantha nonetheless finally feels as if she’s leading her own life. But the ever-hovering, smothering Madeleine Krasner-Wolfe, a twice-divorced and filthy rich force of nature, always seems to have advice for her daughter about everything from fashion and beauty regimens to men.

When Samantha signs up the new rising star of the art world, Blake Hamilton, Madeleine immediately sees him as a prospective son-in-law. Hoping to help her daughter land a husband before it’s too late, Madeleine launches a flirt campaign that both infuriates and enthralls Samantha– compelling her to finally take action. From the toniest penthouses of Park Avenue to the trendiest SoHo lofts, Samantha is on a mission–if only her mother would get out of the way.

Praise for Judith Marks-White’s Seducing Harry:

“Judith Marks-White writes with lashings of humor and a healthy dose of cynicism laced with sweetness.”
–Jane Green, author of Second Chance

“The literary equivalent of a bon bon . . . the perfect book to wedge between all those weighty Booker Prize-winning reads piled up by the bedside.”
–Elle.com

“[Marks-White] has a sharp eye for absurdity and excess.”
–The Boston Globe

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Bachelor Degree by Judith Marks-White

Reviewed by Patricia Woodside
Posted January 15, 2009

Ballantine
August 2008
On Sale: July 29, 2008
368 pages
ISBN: 0345492390
EAN: 9780345492395
Trade Size

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