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    Opening Belle

    By Maureen Sherry

    3.5/5

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    For fans of I Don’t Know How She Does It and The Devil Wears Prada, a smart, funny novel about a woman struggling to have it all.
    In 2008 Isabelle, a 30-something Wall Street executive, appears to have it all: the sprawling Upper West Side apartment, three children, a handsome husband, and a job as managing director of a large investment bank.  But her reality is something else.  Belle is losing respect for her stay-at-home, spendthrift husband, the markets are threatening to annihilate world financial order, and her ex-fiance, the guy she never quite got over, comes back into her life as her largest client, offering her a tempting glimpse of how their life together could have been.
       Written by  Wall Street insider Maureen Sherry who saw plenty of bad behaviour up close, Opening Belle is an unconventional love story and  a revelatory, perceptive and funny account of what life is really like for women working in the hardball, high-stakes world of high finance.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateMar 10, 2016
    ISBN9781471157981
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    Opening Belle
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    Maureen Sherry

    After twelve years on Wall Street, Maureen Sherry—formerly, the youngest Managing Director at Bear Stearns—switched gears to earn her Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia University, to write, and to tutor at inner city schools. Walls Within Walls—her first book, a mystery for middle school audiences—has been awarded curriculum prizes by the states of Texas and Connecticut, and she was named one of the Best New Voices by the American Library Association. Maureen is also an active board member of numerous charities. She lives in New York City with her husband and four children.

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    • 3/5
      3.5 stars.

      More meat here than in your average Sophie Kinsella novel, and mostly it kept me excited to keep reading. But it got a little soapbox-y at times, and I'm not sure it did a great job explaining the roles of traders and bankers in the subprime mortgage crisis, at least in a way that the lay reader would understand. I also wasn't always clear whether Belle was meant to be telling her story as she lived it, or whether she was recounting it some years down the road. Some textual clues pointed one way, some the other. One of those clues involved a big jump in time near the end that felt a little like the author wasn't sure how to write a particular climactic event, so she decided to skip it and show the aftermath instead.

      I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
    • 5/5
      Now here is a book from a former Managing Director at a Wall St investment bank - where few women ever rise to that level, and where the few that do have to put up with incredible harassment and abuse from their male co-workers, and where it's mostly "every bitch for herself". SO I BELIEVE EVERY WORD. I LOVED this book! Isabelle, mother of three, with a slacker discontented husband "babysitting" at home, devotes all the time required by her company to succeed at work and to pull down seven figure bonuses - but she knows it isn't working. When a group of female co-workers decide to try and do something to change the poisonous culture, Isabelle's not quite on board - she doesn't want to be seen as a whiner and she needs that $$$ to keep rolling in. Plus she's just a bit sanctimonious about doing better than they are. Well, hang on, girl, because EVERYTHING'S about to change, and 2008 is coming up soon.This is a very well written domestic and financial thriller. Don't miss it!
    • 5/5
      Loved it! I first couldn’t read past a chapter for any book I decided to read but with opening belle, I couldn’t get enough of this book. It’s a mixture of everything I love! New York, investment banking, women empowerment and ambitious women. I already miss this story!