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Book tour for The Accidental Socialite by Stephanie Wahlstrom

Release Date: 04/15/14
Swoon Romance

My take on this book:

This is a fun book for 20 somethings (or even 30 somethings).  Girls just wanna have fun, right?  Paige is the endearing kind of friend whose suitcase bursts open to evict her washworn undies and Aunt Flo stuff.   Plus, I always love a girl who likes to eat hollandaise sauce without mentioning the calories.

The adventurous spirit in this story is quite contagious.  There’s a hilarious Friends-sort of vibe throughout the dialogue.  The cultural differences surprised me because (a) I’ve never been to Canada and (b) I’ve never been to England.  So for most of the book I was sitting there wondering how all these people from all over the world get to travel everywhere while I’m sitting in Tennessee.  But that’s another story for another day.

This is a book best read by adults.  There’s not a lot of high school drama in it, but the young adult scene is pretty heavy.  There are several mentions of the F-word, some experimentation, and a bawdy scene with a beer bottle.  While I enjoyed the accidental celebrity status that Paige stumbled upon, the romance roller coaster was quite a rocky ride.  The Accidental Socialite would be a good beach book for the summer.

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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.
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.

Author Links:
Stephanie Wahlstrom on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7374749.Stephanie_Wahlstrom
Stephanie Wahlstrom on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bacon_N_Legs
Stephanie Wahlstrom’s blog: http://www.stephaniewahlstrom.com/#!blog/c1gwa
Stephanie Wahlstrom on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorStephanieWahlstrom
Stephanie Wahlstrom’s publisher author page: http://www.myswoonromance.com/#!stephanie-wahlstrom/c5r4

PUBLISHER LINKS
www.myswoonromance.com
@swoonromance
Facebook.com/SwoonRomance

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1 ebook of The Accidental Socialite & $10 Amazon gift card (INT)

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