"An engaging memoir that highlights that not only that money won’t solve all your problems but also that sometimes money isn’t the cause either, and you need to understand yourself, listen to what other people tell you about themselves and establish relationships accordingly."
A memoir filled with ups and downs as Suzanne navigates wealth, life, love and happiness. In A Woman on Top, Suzanne shares the difficulties she’s faced navigating relationships throughout her life. From growing up in a wealthy household, with a controlling father and overspending mother to navigating dating and relationships in adulthood before and after inheriting a significant amount of money. This memoir documents her experiences and difficulties with establishing boundaries as much as it is about entering relationships with unequal financial history. An honest, no-holds barred account of her relationships and journey to establishing her own identity. Throughout A Woman on Top, Suzanne comes across as authentic. Her story is unpolished in that it shares her highs and lows, her mistakes as well as her progress. With the help of therapists and coaches improves in identifying her personal struggles. Through her research for the book she discovers that she is far from alone in the struggle to find a healthy, supportive long-term relationship. This is a memoir and so offers comfort in a story that could be related to by women looking to figure out their own non-traditional place. While throughout the book Suzanne experiences personal and spiritual growth which is shared throughout the book and helpfully summarised at the end, it’s not written from the finish line. There’s a sense that Suzanne is still on her journey as we are on ours, which makes the narrative voice feel authentic and relatable. An engaging memoir that highlights that not only that money won’t solve all your problems but also that sometimes money isn’t the cause either, and you need to understand yourself, listen to what other people tell you about themselves and establish relationships accordingly.
Charlotte Walker, A LoveReading Ambassador
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What if your greatest gift feels like your greatest curse? Recently divorced and a newly single mother of three, Suzanne Leydecker had just begun to create a new life for herself and her children in Aspen, Colorado. Suddenly, after the death of both her parents, Suzanne inherited more money than she had ever imagined at the age of 47. All her problems were solved, right? Wrong. It was like winning the lottery. In some ways, life did get easier. But she didn’t anticipate how it would make her relationships with men a lot harder. The double-edged sword of inherited wealth became her enabler and her curse. Would she ever be able to have a successful, equal, supportive, long-term relationship? Or do love and money never mix? Honest, raw, extravagant, devastating, intimate, shocking, and often funny, A Woman on Top is one woman’s open-kimono story of how wealth impacts relationships when she holds the purse strings. Ultimately Suzanne discovers that the issue isn’t really about money. It’s about how we value ourselves, how we take responsibility for our lives, and how men and women can value each other as society continues to change.
A Woman on Top: My Journey of Self-Discovery Through Love and Money features in the following genres: Indie Author Books, Indie Books We Love, Biographies & Autobiographies
A Woman on Top: My Journey of Self-Discovery Through Love and Money is available in Paperback
A Woman on Top: My Journey of Self-Discovery Through Love and Money was written by Suzanne Leydecker and published by STRONGPrint Publishing
