What's 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 Jamie Whitfield, the gutsy heroine of Holly Peterson's astute new comedy of manners among the ill-mannered elite, she does what ever other woman down the block does. She hires herself a manny.
Peter Bailey is 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. The question is: Will the new manny in her life put the ground back beneath her feet, or sweep her off them?
" Money, Manners, Mannys: Holly Peterson's debut is a fabulously sharp skewering of the silly-rich in New York. Observing a Park Avenue Working Mom falling for The Help had me both touched adn tomented wit laughter. I couldn't put it down. We sould all get a Manny right now."
--Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blones--