Karen Quinn: The Ivy Chronicles
Fiction - Comedy Drama
Published by Pocket Books 2005
Set in the upper east side of New York City, this novel describes the extremes that many American parents will go to, to get their darling children into the best prep schools. When the life Ivy Ames knows begins to crumble around her, as she loses her job, her luxury apartment and discovers her husband is cheating on her, she decides to move on with her life. She begins afresh as a private school admissions adviser helping those parents get their children into the best schools. Ivy is able to gain access to the information the parents need in order to win round the school committee. We cannot help laughing at the extremes these mad parents will go to.
Although Ivy thinks she has her dream job, where she starts earning enough money to reinstate the luxury lifestyle that her and her daughters are used to, some of the parents take it too far and begin dealing in things Ivy no longer wants to be part of. As she battles with angry parents and her own conscience, Ivy begins to see what it is she truly wants and what is most important to her. She ditches her former shallow and materialist morals for more improved and rounded ones; the new Ivy is morally superior to the old Ivy.
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