Opening Belle - Hardcover

Sherry, Maureen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1471157962 ISBN 13: 9781471157967

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK, 2016

Synopsis

For fans of I Don’t Know How She Does It and The Devil Wears Prada, a smart, funny novel about a woman struggling to have it all.
In 2008 Isabelle, a 30-something Wall Street executive, appears to have it all: the sprawling Upper West Side apartment, three children, a handsome husband, and a job as managing director of a large investment bank.  But her reality is something else.  Belle is losing respect for her stay-at-home, spendthrift husband, the markets are threatening to annihilate world financial order, and her ex-fiance, the guy she never quite got over, comes back into her life as her largest client, offering her a tempting glimpse of how their life together could have been.
   Written by  Wall Street insider Maureen Sherry who saw plenty of bad behaviour up close, Opening Belle is an unconventional love story and  a revelatory, perceptive and funny account of what life is really like for women working in the hardball, high-stakes world of high finance.

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Review

"Wow. This is the inside story we've been waiting for. Wall Street women never talk because their silence has been bought. Not Maureen Sherry. She tells her story of a working mother's battle against outrageous sexism and financial recklessness with laugh-out-loud insight and winning panache. Shocking and hilarious, Opening Belle is one woman's glorious revenge on the unreconstructed Tarzans of the corporate jungle. I don't know how she does it, but I'm really glad she did."--Allison Pearson, author of I Don't Know How She Does It

"Rooting for our girl banker/mommy/wife Isabelle is not tough; she is so brilliantly breezy. This book reveals the honest reality of a woman working in a man's world and still being treated like she's in an updated version of the cult classic 9 - 5."--Lucy Sykes, author of The Knockoff

"Working Girl meets Wolf of Wall Street in this in-depth, behind-the-pinstripe peek inside a temple of elite finance, navigated by a sharp, smart woman in an old boys' world."--Jill Kargman, author and creator of Odd Mom Out

"A smart, biting and honest peek into what it means to be a woman on Wall Street. I loved this book."--Reese Witherspoon

"Opening Belle is an irresistibly Zeitgeist-y novel about motherhood, marriage, misogyny, lust, ambition, discovery, disappointment, entitled nannies, and Goldfish crackers on the floor that (and this is big) rings true. But that's not all. Sherry's novel is also a delightfully funny and frequently damning participant-observer's dissection of the secretive codes and practices of an elite, socially antediluvian tribe of men who, in a very real sense, run the world. For them, the bell has sounded."--Wednesday Martin, author of Primates of Park Avenue

"Maureen Sherry reveals what it's like to be a woman working in the adrenaline-fueled, complex, exciting, rewarding, and demanding culture of Wall Street. You won't be bored on this roller coaster ride."--Amy Goodfriend, CEO Goodfriend Partners, former Partner, Goldman Sachs

About the Author

After twelve years on Wall Street, Maureen Sherry—formerly, the youngest Managing Director at Bear Stearns—switched gears to earn her Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia University, to write, and to tutor at inner city schools. Walls Within Walls—her first book, a mystery for middle school audiences—has been awarded curriculum prizes by the states of Texas and Connecticut, and she was named one of the Best New Voices by the American Library Association. Maureen is also an active board member of numerous charities. She lives in New York City with her husband and four children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1471157962
• ISBN 13: 9781471157967
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352