Pineapple Street

Jenny Jackson is a Vice President and Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf. A graduate of Williams College and the Columbia Publishing Course Jenny lives in Brooklyn Heights with her family. <i>Pineapple Street</i> is her first novel. <p><b>'Searing hilarious and poignant' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER<br>'Smart and clever' <i>GUARDIAN </i><br>'A killer debut about class love and money' <i>GRAZIA </i></b><br><b>'Marvellous - clever funny and brilliantly well observed' INDIA KNIGHT</b><br><br><i>Pineapple Street</i> follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money one who married into it and one who wants to give it all away.<br><br>Shot through with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York's one-percenters <i>Pineapple Street </i>is a smart escapist debut novel that sparkles with wit. Full of recognisable loveable - if fallible - characters it's about the peculiar unknowability of someone else's family the miles between the haves and have-nots and the insanity of first love - all wrapped in a story that is a sheer delight.<br><br><b>'Wise emotionally honest fun' HELEN FIELDING<br>'Deliciously fun' KEVIN KWAN<br>'Lovely absorbing acutely observed' NICK HORNBY</b></p> <b>It's marvellous - clever funny and brilliantly well observed</b> <b>The season's first beach read a delicious romp of a debut featuring family crises galore</b> <b>A delicious new Gilded Age family drama . . . a guilty pleasure that also feels like a sociological text</b> <b>A joy to read . . . <i>Pineapple Street </i>is a gift of a novel</b>