Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber: The Katya Livingston Chronicles

After weasel-eyed tax inspectors question her work-related claims, Katya Livingston is forced to keep a financial diary. As well as documenting the cruel and parsimonious ways of her ad agency boss, plus her harrowing business trips around the globe, Katya waxes lyrical about the price she has to pay for putting up with loser friends, mortal enemies, and thoroughly bad restaurants. She also throws in a completely candid account of her rich and varied love life, just in case some of it is tax deductible. What begins as a private account of expenses rapidly becomes, through Katya's chronic delusions of grandeur, a matter of public record: first as a tawdry gossip column, then as a salacious book, and finally as a Hollywood B-movie.Bitingly written with wit and style reminiscent of Candace Bushnell, Adèle Lang's novel is a cutting, bitchy, hilarious take on the young-single-British-woman genre.