I received a free digital copy of this book from Simon&Schuster (ATRIA BOOKS) in exchange for an honest review.

Kate is in a funk after boyfriend dumps her and she's left with no love life, no job, no place to live and basically nothing is working out. Kate's sister Angela eventually pulls her together by getting her a job in the admissions office of a fancy school where Kate soon starts interacting with all manner of kids and parents and realising what she finally wants in life.

This was so great and I'm really glad I picked it up. It was fun, enjoyable and quirky which gave me quite a few laughs and it was just a pleasure to read and a real good time! This is the kind of book that would a really good quirky 'chick-flick' with someone like Zooey Dechanel or Anna Kendrick playing Kate or even a sitcom thanks to the amount of people surrounding Kate such as grumpy colleague Maureen, her friends Victoria and Chloe (who couldn't be more different from one another), her controlling sister, her hippie parents, her cat Stella and the hot downstairs neighbor Jonathan. This book just had a smile on my face the entire time I was reading it, which really made me love it.

The book does start off with a completely different voice than Kate's - Chloe's and each month (or chapter) starts out with an inner monologue from Chloe. At first I didn't really like this but eventually I got used to it and honestly, Chloe is just such a nice person I started looking forward to her bits and by the end I just really wanted her to be my friend. The book is told through a lot of different POVs - sometimes Kate, Angela, Victoria and now and again parents of kids who want to get into Kate's school Hudson. At first, this does whack the reading around a bit because you're unsure who is talking bt the more you read, the more acquainted you get with all the characters and you can begin to recognise their voices. I enjoyed the parts with the different parents as it was normally quite comical and these people were leading such different, privileged lives to Kate and her friends. I also loved Kate's interviews with the kids and her extremely honest notes about all of them (again, would make great TV).

There was a bit at the end where I thought something was going to happen that was completely out of line with the rest of the book ad I was so worried but in the end it all worked out okay, thank goodness. And I love how Kate handled the whole thing.

This is a charming novel which manages to combine some of the New York sophistication and high life of Gossip Girl with the quirkiness characters of New Girl and I loved every moment of it!