Slave to Fashion

By: Rebecca Campbell

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Synopsis: Katie Castle, fabulously witty and unabashedly vain, has inserted herself into the perfect life. Working for the tres chic designer Penny Moss, Katie has snagged not only a townhouse in London's Primrose Hill but also a charming and gentle fiance, Ludo, who also happens to be Penny's son. Possessed of an uncanny ability to send off a verbal time bomb, Katie inexorably climbs the fashion food chain. Finding herself mesmerized by the lilting brogue of Liam, one of Penny's vendors, she succumbs to temptation and enjoys one final fling. But when Penny learns of her indiscretion, Katie loses her boyfriend, her job, and her apartment in quick succession. What follows is every upwardly mobile city slicker's worst nightmare: Homeless and jobless, Katie must piece together a life without her old connections. But Katie's misfortune is the reader's delight as this irrepressible wit recounts a series of adventures and scandals that once again propel her to the top. Reminiscent of the spot-on satire of Ted Heller's Slab Rat, Slave to Fashion marks the arrival of an uncommonly smart and funny new writer.