The Ivy Chronicles

ISBN: 0743492161
Author: Karen Quinn
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When she loses her high-powered job, her husband and her plush Park Avenue apartment in one afternoon, Ivy Ames emerges broken but unbowed. the newly-single mother-of-two picks herself up, dusts herself down and reinvents herself as a private school admissions adviser. But Ivy has no idea what she's let herself in for. In a parent-eat-parent world where even four-year-olds have CVs, Ivy is driven to lengths she'd never dreamed of to satisfy those well-heeled clients who'll do literally anything to get their little darlings into the A-list schools. Fast-paced, feel-good and very, very funny, this deliciously over-the-top tale of mid-life reinvention and unexpected romance will appeal to anyone who has ever lost all they hold dear and had to start over again.

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Reviewer: Lou3000: Rating:; Review:
This was a fabulous story. Who can resist a tale of how a woman, mother of two small daughters, down on her money and her luck, through no fault of her own, dreaming up a money-spinning idea and going for it?

Written in the first-person (Ivy) I routed for her all the way through. It's a cracking yarn, full of fun and one-liners. Some of it OTT - but hey, it's a story, make-believe ...... but with more than an uncomfortable grain of truth in it.

This is Karen Quinn's first novel - I look forward to more.