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High Society

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Just for anyone who is confused, High Society is in fact also released as Society Girls. This is another great book from Mason, who always manages to repackage boy meets girl palatably & deliver a fresh take on the usual.

Following on from the book "Playing James", which starred Holly, Clem is the wayward younger sister (or was that older sister?)

When she is fired from her job due to the duplistic dealings of her former colleague & boyfriend, Clem retreats to the family house to lick her wounds.

Unfortunately big (?) sister Holly hunts her down, and manages to bully her into some rather unsavory doings involving break and enters, all in an attempt to get a scoop on a society girl from Hollys newspaper who has gone missing just before her wedding.

As Clem finds a fresh love interest where she never expected to look, the entire mad clan end up on the run over in France where all sorts of interesting things happen.

Great entertaining book, and there hasn't been a book by Sophie Mason yet which I've not enjoyed.

kotori 2005

Back home in Cornwall sans a boyfriend and career, Clemmie Colshannon is waiting tables when her sister Holly, a reporter for the Bristol Gazette talks her into looking for missing heiress and society reporter Emma McKellan who disappeared after announcing a hasty engagement. After a scary run in with Emma's father, Holly suspects that he abducted her because the groom is not desirable. The two could not be more wrong, but when confronted with the truth, the whole family invades the south of France to elude an unstable groom, while Clemmie's eyes are suddenly open to a new love she never saw coming (of course the rest of us can see it coming from a mile away).

Parts of Mason's follow up to "Playing James" are hysterical, but overall, the story is very uneven and the lead character sort of boring. Clemmie is overshadowed by her raucous family - particularly her mum and pet seagull. The magic of the first novel is missing - making it just an average read. It was released in the US as "Society Girls."

© TJ Vest, August 2008

I've been a fan of Sarah Mason's since reading Party Season and then Playing James. High Society is the best of the lot so far! The characters of Clemmie, Holly (from Playing James)and their family are so much fun and fun to be around that I just couldn't put the book down. The romance is sweet and not overdone. All around a good time!