House of Pretend: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798896363088)

Joanne Redding grew up in Brooklyn and eventually made her way to Manhattan, then the suburbs of Westchester County, and finally Greenwich, CT. She holds a bachelor's degree in French and a master's in finance from NYU and is a certified Master Gardener with a degree in landscape design; over the years, she's worked at an airport and an engineering firm, spent over fifteen years on Wall Street, and run her own landscape design business. The proud mom of two amazing young adults, Joanne shares her home in the New York City area with her two elderly but endlessly loved dogs.