Amber Green is a twenty-eight year old fashion stylist creating the window displays at London's Selfridge's Department Store. She's in a happy relationship with hunky Rob, a TV producer. Rob gets the opportunity to spend three months in New York filming a TV special that follows the backstory of what sounds quite a lot like the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (coincidentally canceled this year), and asks Amber to accompany him. Of course, she accepts.
The two fly off to the Big Apple, find a shoebox-size apartment to sublet in Williamsburg (Brooklyn), and set up housekeeping...and that's when Amber's saga of misadventures truly begins.
Without revealing the details, Amber finds legal (she doesn't have a green card) work, meets crazy, kooky starlets, a disgraced fashion designer, and many others. She gets in a lot of trouble but finds her way out.
It's fun to read about her exploits, her subway and taxi expeditions, and travails with Rob and others. Does everything work out in the end? Of course it does, but that's beside the point - it's the getting there that's so entertaining.
The perfect distraction for a night of insomnia!
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