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Description
What's a Park Avenue working mom to do when her troubled son desperately needs a male role model? If she's like the gutsy heroine of Holly Peterson's astute new comedy of manners, she does what every other woman on the block does. She hires a manny.
A 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. And she has most everything they have - a sprawling, new apartment, full-time help, as well as her very own detached attorney husband. What she doesn't have, is a full-time father figure for their struggling nine-year-old son, Dylan. Enter The Manny. At first the idea of paying a man to provide a role model for Dylan sounds crazy. But Peter Bailey is calm, cool, competent and so charmingly down-to-earth, he's irresistible. And with her career as a news producer in overdrive, and her husband locked in his study, Jamie is in serious need of some grounding. But will the new manny in her life put the ground back beneath her feet, or sweep her off them?
Jamie Whitfield is a Midwestern woman trapped in a high-society marriage who is looking for happiness for herself and her children. Her 10-year-old son needs a male role model, so she hires Peter to be a "manny" while she works at her part-time job as a producer and her husband, Phillip, gets more involved in his law practice. Karen Ziemba captures Jamie's stress, Phillip's self-centeredness, and Peter's perpetual calm. Not surprisingly, Jamie falls for Peter, as do her children. Two plots fight for attention, that of Jamie's career and its attendant stress and that of the children and their need for an engaged father. Ziemba hones in on Jamie's life and budding love affair with Peter, leaving the children and the husband wanting. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Holly Peterson spent a decade as an Emmy award-winning producer at ABC news. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, Talk, and Newsweek, where she is now a contributing editor. She lives in New York City with her family and is working on her next novel.
