Fearing that her detached lawyer husband is failing as a role model for their children, Jamie Whitfield, a working Park Avenue mother, decides to hire the 'Manny,' handsome, twenty-nine-year-old Peter Bailey, who has a genuine love for her kids, as the perfect substitute.

Product Description: What’s a Park Avenue working mom to do when her troubled son desperately needs a male role model and her husband is a power workaholic? If she’s like Jamie Whitfield, the gutsy heroine of Holly Peterson’s astute new comedy of manners among the ill-mannered elite, she does what every other woman down the block does...read more

Product Description: Un manny joven y sexy. Jamie está casada desde hace doce con un abogado de gran éxito y trabaja a tiempo parcial como periodista de investigación. Su marido presta muy poca atención a sus hijos, por lo que Jamie decide contratar a un manny: un niñero que se encargue de llevar a su hijo Dylan a hacer las cosas típicas que haría con su padre...read more

Fearing that her detached lawyer husband is failing as a role model for their children, especially her nine-year-old son Dylan, Jamie Whitfield, a harried, working Park Avenue mother, decides to hire the 'Manny,' handsome, twenty-nine-year-old Peter Bailey, who has a genuine love for her kids, as the perfect substitute. A first novel. Simultaneous.