Opening Belle (Sherry) - Book Reviews

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Ms. Sherry’s novel is a breezy comedy in the style of Bridget Jones’s Diary.... Like her heroine, Ms. Sherry worked on the Bear Stearns trading floor, then a notoriously rowdy place. She said she took the frat-boy antics in stride.
Alessandra Stanley - New York Times


Funny, relevant and often shocking.... Even if your own life is far from a fairy tale, Opening Belle will allow you to laugh, learn and maybe even lean in—to hug your own family a little closer.
Washington Post


Maureen Sherry’s comic novel unspools like a movie.... several [scenes] seem written for Hollywood, possibly for fun, but they read like they’re more for profit. Not that there’s anything wrong with a woman making a living, of course.
Dallas Morning News


[C]haracters' choices are framed as bold, empowering, and optimistic decisions—opportunities for women to excel professionally and make a unique mark on their industries while thriving in work environments that they build themselves. Yet for the reader, they can also feel otherwise, provoking emotions of both sadness and anger; it’s a shame that these industries are so inhospitable to women that their best, and ultimately, only choice is to leave. In the end, though these characters "succeed," they really didn’t have much of a choice at all.
Atlantic Monthly


Compulsively readable…a cheeky—and at times, romantic—battle-cry for any woman who’s ever strived to have it all and been told by a man that she couldn’t.
Entertainment Weekly


This workplace novel that takes a fun look at Wall Street and the Park Avenue set is filled with humor and heart.
Library Journal


(Starred review.) [A] laugh a minute...in this delightful comic novel, at least.... While she's making you laugh, Sherry does an excellent job of explaining what exactly happened in the financial crisis and gives a rare picture of the wide range of ways women in the workplace deal with chauvinism, some as heroes, some as victims, and some as opportunists
Kirkus Reviews