The Manny
By (Author) Holly Peterson
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
1st April 2008
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
512
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 24mm
269g
Sex and the City with a baby: the hot new Manhattan novel is a brilliantly entertaining romantic comedy about a harassed working mum who hires a male nanny.
Welcome to the Grid, home to New Yorks uber rich, where a manny a male nanny is the hottest new hire in town.
And Peter Bailey is young, fun and drop-dead gorgeous. He could be the answer to Jamie Whitfields prayers, even if her husband disagrees.
Peter comes from a very different world to Jamies. Hes cool, calm and he sees right through her attempts to fit in with her chic and sleek neighbours.
Ditching high society dinners for dancing in Brooklyn, Jamie begins to wonder if a married uptown girl can fall for a downtown guy. Hes good for her children. Could the manny be good for her too
'The Manny is a sharp and hugely enjoyable read. Fans of New Yorker must-bys The Devil Wears Prada and The Nanny Diaries should be rushing this one to the tills faster than SJP at a Manolo sample sale. ***** Heat 'A lively debut' Tatler 'A cleverly sub-plotted metropolitan fairy tale' Good Housekeeping 'Move over yummy mummies. The yummy manny is in town.' Spectator 'Money, Manners, Mannys: Holly Peterson's debut is a fabulously sharp skewering of the silly-rich in New York. I couldn't put it down. We should ALL get a Manny.' Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes
Holly Peterson is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Manny. She was a contributing editor for Newsweek and editor-at-large for Talk magazine. She was also an Emmy Award-winning producer for ABC News for more than a decade, where she covered global politics. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, Talk, The Daily Beast, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, among others.