The Chocolate Money

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Darkly funny, shocking and utterly compulsive, this is an outrageous coming of age story set against the backdrop of the uber-rich elite of Chicago and New England. An innocent little girl A phenomenal fortune A mother like no other Ten-year old Bettina and her mother, Babs, are heiresses to one of America's biggest fortunes. But Bettina's whole life is overshadowed by that of her beautiful, hedonistic mother, the glamorous but domineering Babs. At fifteen, Bettina escapes to New England and an exclusive, preppy boarding school called Cardiss, where she hopes she can finally start to figure out who she really is. But while she thinks that fitting in with the other students represents her best chance of surviving the cliques and politics of Cardiss, soon she's making choices that show that Babs' maternal shadow still looms long over her. Can Bettina ever break free to forge her own identity - or is she simply doomed to being her mother's daughter forever

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Packed with an unflinching honesty and acerbic wit, The Chocolate Money is the perfect coming-of-age novel that will have you laughing through even its darkest moments * STYLIST *

Author Bio

Ashley Prentice Norton lives in New York with her husband and three children. The Chocolate Money is her first novel.