Opening Belle (40 page)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sherry, Maureen.

Opening Belle : a novel / Maureen Sherry.—First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

pages ; cm

ISBN 978-1-5011-1062-7 (hardcover)—ISBN 978-1-5011-1063-4 (softcover)—ISBN 978-1-5011-1064-1 (ebook) 1. Working mothers—Fiction. 2. Women stockbrokers—Fiction. 3. Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3619.H46954O64 2016

813'.6—dc23

2015024158

ISBN 978-1-5011-1062-7

ISBN 978-1-5011-1064-1 (ebook)