6. The Ivy Chronicles

In between reading about Public Policy (which is totally going to count as 3 books in the goal of 56 by the way) I read The Ivy Chronicles at B&N today. From B&N.com - When turbocharged Park Avenue mom Ivy Ames finds that she’s been downsized from herplatinum-card corporate job and her marriage, she swiftly realizes that she’s going to need a whole new way to support herself and her two private-school daughters. So she dreams up a new business—helping upscale New Yorkers get their little darlings into the most exclusive kindergartens in the city. What begins as one woman’s bid to earn a living becomes an everywoman’s tale of midlife reinvention and unexpected romance, set in a looking-glass world where even tots have résumés.

Not a great literary work, but a good read, and probably (unfortunately) fairly based in reality.