The Accidental Socialite
Release Date:
04/15/14
Swoon Romance
Swoon Romance
Summary from
Goodreads:
Quirky and clumsy twenty-two-year-old Paige Crawford arrives in London on
a cold Saturday in January. Just when Paige starts to think that moving
thousands of miles away from home with no real plan was a bad idea, Jason Frost
appears. Confident and classy, Jason is the complete opposite of Paige and just
what she needs in her life, or so she thinks.
But before their romance has time to blossom, Paige trips and falls into the arms of a mysterious man on a drunken night out. She’s snapped by paparazzi, and newspaper headlines the next day suggest that she’s having an affair with a married footballer.
Paige finds herself instantly elevated to tabloid celebrity status which isn’t exactly a picnic, particularly when trying to juggle her new job at Fashionista magazine, a catalog of dating disasters and a nagging doubt that she maybe she can’t conquer London after all.
When a trip back to Canada for Christmas reminds Paige why she left her old life behind, she returns to London with renewed vigor realizing that while jobs, flats and men may come and go, friends in London are forever.
Excerpt:
But before their romance has time to blossom, Paige trips and falls into the arms of a mysterious man on a drunken night out. She’s snapped by paparazzi, and newspaper headlines the next day suggest that she’s having an affair with a married footballer.
Paige finds herself instantly elevated to tabloid celebrity status which isn’t exactly a picnic, particularly when trying to juggle her new job at Fashionista magazine, a catalog of dating disasters and a nagging doubt that she maybe she can’t conquer London after all.
When a trip back to Canada for Christmas reminds Paige why she left her old life behind, she returns to London with renewed vigor realizing that while jobs, flats and men may come and go, friends in London are forever.
Excerpt:
When I walked into Maddox it was like
another world. You would never know from the outside that behind that plain
black door lay a world full of champagne, seared tuna and a six-foot tall
supermodel/DJ. I saw Lucinda and walked towards her table, slightly slipping in
my wet heels just before the stairs. I sat down and was immediately offered
champagne.
“Hello, I’m François,” said a Ryan Gosling
look-a-like in a very sexy French accent, “what is your name?”
“I’m Paige.” I smiled. God people were so
nice here, why didn’t I move to London when I was, like, born?
“Paige? Like in a book? How unique!” At
least I was off to a great start with him. “Well, Paige
like in a book, what do you study here in London?”
“I -”
Lucinda got my attention.
“Chicken you look fabulous. Let me
introduce you to everyone else.” As she rolled off several names I would never
remember I looked at where I was and who I was with. Not only was there nothing
like this at home, it definitely wasn’t free and full of models. Food. Check. Champagne.
Check. Guys who look like Ryan Gosling. Check. It might have actually been
heaven. Hopefully I hadn’t been hit by one of those big red double decker buses
and died, but then again, if I had, my afterlife was awesome.When I walked into Maddox it was like
another world. You would never know from the outside that behind that plain
black door lay a world full of champagne, seared tuna and a six-foot tall
supermodel/DJ. I saw Lucinda and walked towards her table, slightly slipping in
my wet heels just before the stairs. I sat down and was immediately offered
champagne.
“Hello, I’m François,” said a Ryan Gosling
look-a-like in a very sexy French accent, “what is your name?”
“I’m Paige.” I smiled. God people were so
nice here, why didn’t I move to London when I was, like, born?
“Paige? Like in a book? How unique!” At
least I was off to a great start with him. “Well, Paige
like in a book, what do you study here in London?”
“I -”
Lucinda got my attention.
“Chicken you look fabulous. Let me
introduce you to everyone else.” As she rolled off several names I would never
remember I looked at where I was and who I was with. Not only was there nothing
like this at home, it definitely wasn’t free and full of models. Food. Check. Champagne.
Check. Guys who look like Ryan Gosling. Check. It might have actually been
heaven. Hopefully I hadn’t been hit by one of those big red double decker buses
and died, but then again, if I had, my afterlife was awesome.
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About the Author
Growing up in Edmonton, Canada, a
significant amount of Stephanie’s time was spent making up and acting out
stories. She was studying to be an actress when she realized there weren’t any
parts for women being written. So, Stephanie wrote herself a short screenplay
just to be in it, and quickly realized that writing was her true passion. She
graduated from the University of Alberta with an English and Sociology degree
and she also has a Bachelor of Motion Picture Arts from Red Deer College. After
a fateful trip to Mexico in 2006, Stephanie decided to move to New York City to
work in film development. A year later she went back home to write My Green
House, a factual TV series. Stephanie moved to London in 2008 and aside
from being obsessed with eggs benedict, fruit roll- ups and travelling, she
also works in children’s television. The Accidental Socialite is her
first novel.
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Based on the excerpt, I think that I will like reading this novel. It is very modern and alludes to pop culture.
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