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The Manny

A Novel

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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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    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 26, 2007
      Jamie Whitfield, 36, lives on Park Avenue with her three children and her mostly absent high-powered attorney husband, Phillip, and works part-time as a producer for a prime-time news program. She hires Peter Bailey—29 and biding his time until he get funding for his software business—to plug the household's gaps and be a father figure to nine-year-old Dylan. The two, of course, are attracted to each other, and when Peter's money comes through, he doesn't tell Jamie. Phillip's temper tantrums when lacking pulpless orange juice or a wooden-handled umbrella are surprisingly funny, and a subplot where Jamie chases a trashy but potentially career-making story is strong. Jamie's co-workers are more realistically portrayed than her shallow friends, but even Jamie's children come alive when they root for mom's success.

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      May 1, 2007
      Jamie Whitfield has it allshe's just having a bit of trouble juggling it at the moment. She's got a high-pressure job, an oft-absent spouse, and a son who's falling apart emotionally. Enter Peter Bailey, the male nannyor "manny"a smart, thirtysomething entrepreneur whose positive influence on nine-year-old Dylan as a stand-in guy-around-the-house unexpectedly extends to Jamie, too. In contrast to Jamie's alpha-male husband, who doesn't just want to keep up with the Joneses but to surpass them at any cost, Peter's a laid-back, go-with-the-flow kind of guy, seemingly the perfect tonic for an overstressed Jamie. Every Park Avenue mom knows that the man on the household staff is never the knight in shining armorexcept maybe this one. In Peterson's fast-paced debut novel, no topic is taboo, from the working world to preschoolers' birthday parties, from high fashion to sex. The dialog is quick and witty, though the characters are more stock than not. Recommended for larger public libraries and libraries where mom lit is very popular. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ" 2/1/07.]Amy Brozio-Andrews, Albany P.L., NY

      Copyright 2007 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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