Patricia Chadwick's Revelatory Memoir, \u201CLittle Sister\u201D

Patricia Chadwick's Revelatory Memoir, “Little Sister”

By Anne W. Semmes

Patricia Walsh Chadwick of Greenwich is every inch an entrepreneur, with a 30-year career in the financial world. She succeeded in a man’s world, traveled the world as a Global Partner of INVESCO, created her own Ravensgate consulting firm, often opined on markets on CNBC, and picked up a YWCA Brava Award along the way.

What were her formative influences? Surviving a painful childhood in a religious cult, separated from her parents and four siblings, until she was ejected at age 17 into the world with no money, skills

or family support, a stranger to newspapers, magazines, television, and the simple act of making a phone call.

The astounding story is all there in words and pictures in her new memoir, “Little Sister,” soon to be in bookstores in April, published by Post Hill Press. One sees today Chadwick, well married to John Chadwick and a mother of grown up twins, still working and active in the nonprofit world.

For a glimpse of her singular experience, we asked Chadwick a few questions:

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Patricia Chadwick’s new memoir “Little Sister” will hit bookstores in April.