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	Liepman Literary Agency Marc Koralnik
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OPENING BELLE

Maureen Sherry

A big commercial novel about women on Wall Street. Funny, very smart, jaw dropping about the sexism there, and full of substantive financial material. Maureen Sherry was for 12 years a managing director at Bear Stearns

Bling. My mornings always start this way. Bling, Bling, Bling. Eight, jet-propelled, German engineered elevators reach the same Wall Street trading floor, at slightly different intervals, and then bling. Sounding like a heated pinball game, the rectangular boxes empty well-dressed people onto a marble floor, hiss their doors shut and dive back 14 flights to retrieve the next group of bankers. It's a human pinball game where the bodies crash into each other and move frenetically to the beat of worldwide markets. Bling! I started working here twelve years ago when that sound charged me up, firing some investment-banking cylinder that stirred deep within my capitalistic soul. While the rest of the world abhorred bankers, I reveled in the beauty of markets, in the possibility of growing businesses and just assumed the rest of the world didn't get it. I saw banking as the real heartbeat of America, financing companies so they could grow, taking them public so everyone could invest in them and make money. Like a horse out of the gate I'd clack my I'm-not-a secretary-so-I don't-wear-sexy-heels, past the heavily laden wing tips of investment bankers. I'd angle into my spot on the trading turret passing row after row of blinking lights and computer screens, arriving at my tiny piece of desk real estate ahead of the testosteroned masses, and feel pretty good about myself.

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Book Published 2016-02-01 by Simon & Schuster

Comments

Piemme

"Wow. This is the inside story we've been waiting for. Wall Street women never talk because their silence has been bought. Not Maureen Sherry. She tells her story of a working mother's battle against outrageous sexism and financial recklessness with laugh-out-loud insight and winning panache. Shocking and hilarious, Opening Belle is one woman's glorious revenge on the unreconstructed Tarzans of the corporate jungle. I don't know how she does it, but I'm really glad she did."

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Maureen Sherry reveals what it's like to be a woman working in the adrenaline-fueled, complex, exciting, rewarding, and demanding culture of Wall Street. You won't be bored on this roller coaster ride.

S&S

Working Girl meets Wolf of Wall Street in this in-depth, behind-the-pinstripe peek inside a temple of elite finance, navigated by a sharp, smart woman in an old boys' world.

"In Wall Street insider Sherry's first adult novel (after the middle-school title Walls Within Walls), Belle is a 36-year-old managing director on Wall Street who seemingly has it all. She's a working mom who brings home a six-figure salary, not including bonuses; her husband "works" from home and her two children attend a prestigious private school. She is at the top of her game when she learns of the Glass Ceiling Club, a group of female coworkers who are tired of conducting business in a sexist, frat-boy environment. At first, Belle is reluctant to get involved, having made it this far by putting up with the men who pat her bottom and make money off her ideas. Meanwhile, her marriage is tested by a husband who appears content to lie around at home while she brings in the money. Temptation comes in the form of the successful ex-fiancé who wants her back in his life. Set in 2007, the novel touches on the mortgage crisis, wonderfully explaining the ways of the world of finance for readers while still making them laugh. VERDICTThis workplace novel that takes a fun look at Wall Street and the Park Avenue set is filled with humor and heart."Catherine Coyne, Mansfield P.L., MA Read more...

Beijing Alpha Books

to Warner Brothers and Reese Witherspoon who will produce and star

"Opening Belles themes also resonate for women in the entertainment business which is one of the reasons it caught the eye of Witherspoon and her Pacific Standard partner, producer Bruna Papandrea." Read more...

Corporate sexism and the mortgage crisis are a laugh a minute...in this delightful comic novel, at least she evokes this luxurious yet disgusting world in juicy detail While she's making you laugh, Sherry does an excellent job of explaining what exactly happened in the financial crisis and gives a rare picture of the wide range of ways women in the workplace deal with chauvinism, some as heroes, some as victims, and some as opportunists. So much fun, and educational too.

Proszynski Media

Rooting for our girl banker/mommy/wife Isabelle is not tough; she is so brilliantly breezy. This book reveals the honest reality of a woman working in a man's world and still being treated like she's in an updated version of the cult classic 9 - 5.