The Manny, Holly Peterson
The Manny, Holly Peterson
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The Manny

Author: Holly Peterson

Narrator: Karen Ziemba

Unabridged: 11 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper

Published: 06/19/2007

Synopsis

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?

About Holly Peterson

Holly Peterson is the author the May 2017 social satire fiction release, It Happens in the Hamptons. In 2016, she curated an outdoor cooking book, Assouline's Smoke and Fire: Recipes and Menus for Outdoor Entertaining. In 2014, she published The Idea of Him and of the New York Times bestseller The Manny in 2007.  She was a Contributing Editor for Newsweek, an Editor-at-Large for Talk magazine and an Emmy Award-winning Producer for ABC News, where she spent more than a decade covering everthing from trials of the century to global politics. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, Town and Country, The Daily Beast, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle Decor, Departures and numerous other publications.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rebecca on June 18, 2011

This book could have been so much better! Sometimes all the lovely-dovey in chicklit novels really piss me off and I wish there could be a guy and a girl and they didn’t always have to fall in freakin’ love because the situation is just like, NO! I bet you can see where I am already going with this......more

Goodreads review by Alexa on February 23, 2023

Meh. La pasas bien, pero meh…......more

Goodreads review by **Sognatrice di libri** on March 09, 2021

Una lettura molto scorrevole per nulla noiosa, ma neanche niente di mozzafiato per chi non vuole qualcosa di impegnativo.......more

Goodreads review by Maria on December 02, 2019

Dadacul este o carte simpatică, deloc spectaculoasă sau memorabilă, ci doar o poveste de citit la final de săptămână, când n-ai altceva mai bun de facut. Autoarea ne prezintă lumea bogaților din New york, acolo unde fiecare copil al unei familii, are propria bona. :) Într-o lume superficială traieste......more

Goodreads review by Angela on April 02, 2010

On the surface, Jamie Whitfield has it all: a thriving career as a serious broadcast news producer, a multimillionaire husband, three adorable children, and full cast of household help. What she doesn't have is a full-time father for her children or an attentive husband. What's a desperate woman to d......more

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