The Manny
(MAN-EE) N: A nanny of the male persuasion.
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Jamie Whitfield is a Midwestern woman trapped in a high-society marriage who is looking for happiness for herself and her children. Her 10-year-old son needs a male role model, so she hires Peter to be a "manny" while she works at her part-time job as a producer and her husband, Phillip, gets more involved in his law practice. Karen Ziemba captures Jamie's stress, Phillip's self-centeredness, and Peter's perpetual calm. Not surprisingly, Jamie falls for Peter, as do her children. Two plots fight for attention, that of Jamie's career and its attendant stress and that of the children and their need for an engaged father. Ziemba hones in on Jamie's life and budding love affair with Peter, leaving the children and the husband wanting. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
March 26, 2007
Jamie Whitfield, 36, lives on Park Avenue with her three children and her mostly absent high-powered attorney husband, Phillip, and works part-time as a producer for a prime-time news program. She hires Peter Bailey—29 and biding his time until he get funding for his software business—to plug the household's gaps and be a father figure to nine-year-old Dylan. The two, of course, are attracted to each other, and when Peter's money comes through, he doesn't tell Jamie. Phillip's temper tantrums when lacking pulpless orange juice or a wooden-handled umbrella are surprisingly funny, and a subplot where Jamie chases a trashy but potentially career-making story is strong. Jamie's co-workers are more realistically portrayed than her shallow friends, but even Jamie's children come alive when they root for mom's success.
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