Ashley Prentice Norton
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Bettina Ballentyne is a chocolate heiress only by name, it is her glamorous and narcissistic mother, Babs, who lives up to the billing and plays by no one's rules. Navigating a simultaneously treacherous and alluring landscape of wealth, sex, and decadence-first in her privileged childhood in Chicago and later at a top-tier east coast boarding school-Bettina must figure out how to reconcile her yearning for maternal affection with her mother's take-no-prisoners-style...
2) If you left
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A seductive novel about a privileged but damaged Manhattan wife whose main source of stability -- her marriage -- comes under threat, from forces both without and within. For most of their marriage, Althea has fluctuated between extreme depressive and manic states -- what she calls "the Tombs" and "the Visions" -- and Oliver has been the steady hand that guided her to safety. This summer, Althea decides that she will be different from here on. She...
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