I Heart New York

October 18, 2010
In Kelk's debut novel, rife with familiar chick-lit tropes, Londoner Angela Clark discovers her fiancé Mark's infidelity at her best friend Louisa's wedding and impulsively hops a plane to New York the next day, funding her trip with cash from their joint account. After checking into a fancy hotel, she's befriended by concierge Jenny Lopez, who seems to have nothing better to do than take Angela on shopping sprees and gush about how she's become her hero. Meanwhile, bland Angela curiously attracts several charming, attractive men, eventually having to make a rich man poor man choice between banker Tyler Moore and musician Alex Reid, equally handsome. Angela begins making a startling amount of money writing a blog that documents her experiences in the big (sex and the) city, and soon she's faced with a dilemma: stay in NYC with her new life or head back to England, where she's been offered a fabulous magazine job? Will she hold the interest of those amazing men? Will she have to grow up and face people from her past? Perhaps designer bag-crazy, extraordinarily lucky Angela has something else going for her. Unfortunately, readers will never know.

September 1, 2010
Londoner Angela Clarke has landed in New York City after catching her boyfriend with another woman at her best friends wedding. Alone, and with little more than the bridesmaid dress onher back, Angela begins to doubt her rash decision. That is, until Jenny, a hotel concierge and wannabe life coach, takes Angela under her wing, giving her a makeover and a crash course in New York life. Angelas newfound style leads to romances with two very different menhandsome downtown banker Tyler and sexy Brooklyn rocker Alex. Angela turns her adventures in dating in New York into a blog for a popular magazine. When her popularity backfires, she must decide whether to escape back to London or stick to her adopted hometown. Sex and the City fans will enjoy this debut novelists take on dating, fashion, and friendship in the Big Apple.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2010, American Library Association.)