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The Shampoo Effect

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. Pineapple Street is her first novel.

When writer Caroline Lash arrives in Greenhead, she falls immediately for its scenic beaches and New England charm – and even harder for Van Whittaker, a gorgeous, fleece-wearing, litter-collecting, kayak enthusiast. 
 
She meets his friends: Augusta, old money and uptight; Fran, drowning in everyone else’s problems whilst keeping two kids (and an inebriated husband) afloat; and Bailey, who is sexy, confident… and inconveniently pregnant with Van’s child. 
 
Determined nothing will dull the shine of her new romance, Caroline joins the friends as they run wild through Greenhead, drinking on houseboats, gossiping on beaches while their children paddle, and playing risky games. 
 
It seems the fun will last forever – until it doesn’t. As decades-old friendships and marriages begin to fracture, Caroline’s place in their world is called into question. And with all the group’s most tightly held secrets at stake, who knows what might come out? 
 
Dazzlingly funny, sexy, and as juicy as it is astute, The Shampoo Effect is a story of late-night parties, early mornings with small children, and old friends finally growing up – despite all their best efforts.

Jenny Jackson

A witty depiction of an old-money family in crisis

Filled with warmth and light. I was moved, engaged, inspired and charmed

Pineapple Street is that rarest of gifts-a novel you don't want to put down for anything. Transporting and laugh-out-loud funny, this intergenerational story is a perfect tale for our times

J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of FRIENDS AND STRANGERS

In this vibrant and hilarious debut, Jenny Jackson has taken a familiar tale-siblings, family money, competing interests-and given it fresh life. What binds the book together so wonderfully is Jackson's keen understanding of the beauty and difficulty of belonging, of how our desires can clash with our inherited narrative and what happens to the people we love when we need to rewrite the story. Pineapple Street is riveting, timely, hugely entertaining and brimming with truth

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of THE NEST and GOOD COMPANY

Full of witty and caustic observations about a privileged class of New Yorkers, PINEAPPLE STREET is a sharp and juicy satire

Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE MAID

Killer debut about class, love and money

It's the novel Jane Austen would have written . . . if Jane Austen lived in Brooklyn Heights in the 21st century

If you're in search of the fiction trifecta - a captivating story that's masterfully constructed, vividly peopled, and crisply written - look no further. Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street is pure reading pleasure, hilarious, big-hearted, and full of emotional truths. It's the kind of novel you hope will never end

A witty, easy-to-devour story of wealth and love's never-ending war in the modern age

This novel...is laugh-out-loud good....Love and money have always mixed like oil and water (not well), but Jackson finds new humor and warmth in her particularly witty debut

This witty novel about the haves and have-mores is Succession with a soul

A novel about inheritance and the cultural inanities of the American WASP, set in a maximalist mansion? Don't mind if I do. Pineapple Street is more than a field report on the WASPs and their shabby-sweater super-wealth, of course-it's about class difference and the taxations of love

Sparkling . . . The book is smart and sharply observed, peppered with small gems

Pineapple Street encapsulates the oftentimes ridiculous nature of the ultra-wealthy. The author seamlessly immerses readers in the lives of the Stocktons...[who] must ask themselves the uncomfortable question: Is it possible to be "good" with this much money?

Ever wondered what it's like to be a New York socialite? This account of three ficitionalied Brooklyn Heights women lets you into the world of tennis clubs, long lunches and party politics. Life for Sasha, Daley and Georgina isn't as rosy as it seems. Each has her own personal drama, but releatable failures keep you rooting for them. Remember: money can't buy you love

A observed comedy of manners set among New York's one-per-centers . . . the angsty relationship they each have with the family coffers spices the escapist entertainment that ensues

Sharp-eyed and witty, this is writing which cuts to the quick. Engrossing, full of pleasure, sadness too, it traces loss and change in a world of the haves and the have nots

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
 
'Searing, hilarious and poignant' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER 
'Smart and clever' GUARDIAN 
'A killer debut about class, love and money' GRAZIA 
'Marvellous - clever, funny and brilliantly well observed' INDIA KNIGHT 
'Filled with warmth and light' DAISY BUCHANAN 
 
Meet the Stockton women of Brooklyn Heights: Darley, who was born with money; Sasha, who married into it; and Georgiana, who wants to give it all away. 
 
Among glittering parties, weekend homes and hungover brunches, the three will have to grapple with the burden of parental expectations, the hardships and bewilderment of growing up, and the miles between the haves and have-nots. 
 
Pineapple Street is a witty and wicked novel about New York’s one percenters: their first loves, family feuds and the complexities of being human – even when you have everything. 
 
'Wise, emotionally honest fun' HELEN FIELDING 
'Deliciously fun' KEVIN KWAN 
'Lovely, absorbing, acutely observed' NICK HORNBY 
 
Instant New York Times bestseller, March 2023

Jenny Jackson

Praise for Pineapple Street

A witty depiction of an old-money family in crisis

Filled with warmth and light. I was moved, engaged, inspired and charmed

Pineapple Street is that rarest of gifts-a novel you don't want to put down for anything. Transporting and laugh-out-loud funny, this intergenerational story is a perfect tale for our times

A witty depiction of an old-money family in crisis

Filled with warmth and light. I was moved, engaged, inspired and charmed

Pineapple Street is that rarest of gifts-a novel you don't want to put down for anything. Transporting and laugh-out-loud funny, this intergenerational story is a perfect tale for our times

A witty depiction of an old-money family in crisis

Filled with warmth and light. I was moved, engaged, inspired and charmed

Pineapple Street is that rarest of gifts-a novel you don't want to put down for anything. Transporting and laugh-out-loud funny, this intergenerational story is a perfect tale for our times

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