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A whip-smart and funny novel told with a former Wall Block insider who shows what it's like for an operating woman to balance love, ambition, and family in a world of glamorous extra, outrageous risk taking, and jaw-dropping sexism. In 2008, Isabelle - a self-made 30-something Wall membrane Street celebrity - appears to have everything: an Top West Aspect apartment, three healthy children, a good-looking spouse, and a high-powered job. But her reality is something else. Her trading-desk work environment resembles a 1980s frat get together, her husband seems employment is beneath him, and the bulk of childcare and homecare still comes in Belle's already full lap. Enter Henry, the former college or university fiancé she never quite got over, now a hedge account mogul. He becomes her major customer, and Belle reaches see the life she might have experienced with him. While Henry promotions to earn Belle again, the sexually harassed women in her office do something to improve their working conditions and recruit a wary Belle into a secret "glass ceiling golf club" whose goal is to mellow the cowboy bank culture and get similar purchase their work. All along, Belle can sense the financial marketplaces going toward their soon-to-be traditional crash and this something has to give - so when it does, everything will change: her relationship, her job, her world, and her need to keep her colleagues' hands to themselves. From Maureen Sherry, a prize-winning copy writer and a former managing director on Wall membrane Block (who never authorized a nondisclosure agreement when she still left), Starting Belle takes listeners into the adrenaline-fueled chaos of an Wall Block trading desk; the lavish parties; the lunchtime rendezvous; and, in the long run, the center of a female who discovers it much easier to cook up large numbers at work than meal at home.
