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Dial Press
May 2008
On Sale: June 3, 2008
368 pages
ISBN: 0385340486
EAN: 9780385340489
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What’s a Park
Avenue working mom to do when her troubled son desperately
needs a male
role model and her husband is a power workaholic? If she’s
like the
gutsy heroine of Holly Peterson’s astute new comedy of
manners among
the ill-mannered elite, she does what every other woman on
the block
does. She hires herself a “manny.”
A
solid middle-class girl from Middle America, Jamie Whitfield
isn’t “one
of them” but she lives in “the Grid,” the wealthiest acre of
real
estate in Manhattan, where big money and big media collide.
And she has
most everything they have–a big new apartment, full-time
help with her
three children, as well as her very own detached Master of
the Universe
attorney husband. What she doesn’t have, however, is a
full-time father
figure for their struggling nine-year-old son, Dylan. But
the rich
haven’t yet encountered a problem they can’t hire someone
else to solve.
Enter the manny.
At
first the idea of paying a man to provide a role model for
Dylan sounds
too crazy to be true. But one look at Peter Bailey is enough to
convince Jamie that the idea may not be quite so insane
after all.
Peter is calm, cool, competent, and so charmingly
down-to-earth, he’s
irresistible. And with the political sex scandal of the decade
propelling her career as a news producer into overdrive, and her
increasingly erratic husband locked in his study with
suspicious files,
Jamie is in serious need of some grounding.
Peter
reminds her of
everything she once was, still misses, and underneath all the
high-society glitz, still is. But will the new manny in her
life put
the ground back beneath her feet, or sweep her off them?
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