Opening Belle
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Opening Belle is Maureen Sherry's novel about a woman working on Wall Street during the 2008 financial crisis. Isabelle McElroy is a successful trader at a large investment bank, balancing her career with three young children and a husband who resents her success. She faces sexism at work and the attentions of a former fiancé, while the financial markets start to collapse. Drawing on the author's own experience, the novel looks at women in finance.
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