Opening Belle: A Novel

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Synopsis

Maureen Sherry’s funny insider novel about a female Wall Street executive also trying to be a mother and a wife is a “compulsively readable…cheeky—and at times, romantic—battle-cry for any woman who’s ever strived to have it all and been told by a man that she couldn’t” (Entertainment Weekly).

It’s 2008 and Isabelle, a thirty-something Wall Street executive, appears to have it all: the sprawling Upper West Side apartment; three healthy children; a handsome husband; and a job as managing director at a large investment bank. But her reality is something else. Her work environment resembles a frat party, her husband feels employment is beneath him, and the bulk of childcare logistics still fall in Belle’s already crowded lap.

Enter Henry, the former college fiancé she never quite got over; now a hedge fund mogul. He becomes her largest client, and Belle gets to see the life she might have had with him. While Henry campaigns to win Belle back, the sexually harassed women in her office take action to improve their working conditions, and recruit a wary Belle into a secret “glass ceiling club” whose goal is to mellow the cowboy banking culture and get equal pay for their work. All along, Belle can sense the financial markets heading toward their soon-to-be historic crash and that something has to give—and when it does, everything is going to change: her marriage, her career, her bank statement, and her colleagues’ frat boy behavior.

Optioned by Reese Witherspoon who called it “smart, biting, and honest,” Opening Belle is “funny, relevant, and often shocking….Even if your own life is far from a fairy tale, it will allow you to laugh, learn, and maybe even lean in—to hug your own family a little closer.” (The Washington Post).

Chapters

  • OpeningBelle 21 Ch20

    Duration: 05min
  • OpeningBelle 22 Ch21

    Duration: 19min
  • OpeningBelle 23 Ch22

    Duration: 10min
  • OpeningBelle 24 Ch23

    Duration: 24min
  • OpeningBelle 25 Ch24

    Duration: 24min
  • OpeningBelle 26 Ch25

    Duration: 20min
  • OpeningBelle 27 Ch26

    Duration: 06min
  • OpeningBelle 28 Ch27

    Duration: 04min
  • OpeningBelle 29 Ch28

    Duration: 12min
  • OpeningBelle 30 Ch29

    Duration: 27min
  • OpeningBelle 31 Ch30

    Duration: 06min
  • OpeningBelle 32 Ch31

    Duration: 14min
  • OpeningBelle 33 Ch32

    Duration: 04min
  • OpeningBelle 34 Ch33

    Duration: 16min
  • OpeningBelle 35 Ch34

    Duration: 18min
  • OpeningBelle 36 Ch35

    Duration: 43min
  • OpeningBelle 37 Ch36

    Duration: 21min
  • OpeningBelle 38 Ch37

    Duration: 19min
  • OpeningBelle 39 Ch38

    Duration: 13min
  • OpeningBelle 40 Ch39

    Duration: 06min
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