num_pages: 288
description: As addictive decadent and delicious as chocolate itself Set in 1980s Chicago and on the East Coast this electric novel chronicles the relationship between an impossibly rich chocolate heiress Babs Ballentyne and her sensitive and bookish young daughter Bettina. Babs plays by no ones rules: naked Christmas cards lavish theme parties with lewd installations at her Lake Shore Drive penthouse nocturnal visits from her married lover who admires her centerfold while his wife sleeps at their nearby home. Bettina wants nothing more than to win her mothers affection and approval both of which prove elusive. When she escapes to an elite New Hampshire prep school Bettina finds that her unorthodox upbringing makes it difficult to fit in with her peers one of whom happens to be the son of Babss lover. As she struggles to forge an identity apart from her mother Bettina walks a fine line between self-preservation and self-destruction. As funny as it is scandalous The Chocolate Money is Mommie Dearest Prep and 50 Shades of Gray all rolled into one compulsively readable book.
language: English
title: The Chocolate Money
publisher: Mariner Books