Let Me Tell You Something: Life as a Real Housewife, Tough-Love Mother, and Street-Smart Businesswoman by Caroline Manzo

Let Me Tell You Something: Life as a Real Housewife, Tough-Love Mother, and Street-Smart Businesswoman by Caroline Manzo

Let Me Tell You Something offers insights and lessons on how to create a happy and fulfilling life from Caroline Manzo, the tell-it-like-it-is, breakout star and fan favorite of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New Jersey.

In this personal and practical guide, Caroline Manzo reveals how she has achieved a life that many viewers envy--a close relationship with her children, a strong marriage, and a firm belief in loyalty to friends. She brings her life experience and pragmatic outlook to tough questions about family, friendship, love, and more.

With wit and wisdom, Manzo opens up about life, family, raising children, love, and aging. Let Me Tell You Something: Life as a Real Housewife, Tough-Love Mother, and Street-Smart Businesswoman includes personal color photographs and lots of sage advice.

It's the kind of advice only a tough-love mother with street smarts can give.

• Tough Love Parenting: How to raise kids, not monsters, with a strong work ethic and a healthy respect for the word "no."
• Marriage Advice: The secret to a thirty-year bond with her husband, Albert, and why she believes being a wife comes first, and Mommy second.
• Old-School Italian Family Values: Why Sunday dinners, fierce loyalty, and family traditions are the glue that holds everything together, even when things get crazy.
• Behind the Scenes of Reality TV: The unvarnished truth about catfights, fame, and staying true to yourself when the cameras are rolling on The Real Housewives of New Jersey.

Caroline Seller Manzo was born in London but was brought up in Fiji and has lived in many different countries, first with her parents, then with her husband, Marcello. She read classics at Oxford University and now works as a trainer in communication studies. She and Marcello have two daughters, and divide their time between London, Sicily, and Milan.