Description:From the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada comes
an irresistible novel about what happens when a girl on the fringe
enters the realm of New York's chic, party-hopping elite.
On
paper, Bette Robinson's life is good. At twenty-six, she's got a great
deal on an apartment in Manhattan, and she's on target to become an
associate at the prestigious investment bank where she works with her
best friend. Her eighty-hour workweeks might keep her from socializing
or dating outside her office walls—but she's paying her dues on the
well-trod path to wealth and happiness. So when Bette quits her job like
the impulsive girl she's never been, she not only shocks her friends
and family—she has no idea what to do next.
For months, Bette
gets out and about by walking her four-pound dog around her decidedly
unglamorous Murray Hill neighborhood. Then she meets Kelly, head of
Manhattan's hottest PR and events planning firm, and suddenly Bette has a
brand-new job where the primary requirement is to see and be seen.
The
work at Kelly & Company takes Bette inside the VIP rooms of the
city's most exclusive nightclubs, to parties crowded with celebrities
and socialites. Bette learns not to blink at the famous faces, the black
Amex cards, the magnums of Cristal, or the ruthless paparazzi. Soon
she's dating an infamous playboy who's great for her career but bad for
her sanity—and scaring off the one decent guy she meets. Still, as her
coworkers repeatedly point out, how can you complain about a job that
pays you to party? Bette has to agree—until she begins appearing in a
vicious new gossip column. That's when Bette's life on paper takes on a
whole new meaning—and she learns the line between her personal and
professional lives is...invisible.