SuitabookBelonging and social status
Amelia seeks entry into an affluent social circle after feeling like an outsider beside elite families.
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Anastasia Hollings - Author
This is a story about reinvention, social ambition and the desire to belong. Amelia's access to an affluent world depends on managing appearances, while a new friendship creates both opportunity and pressure.
Amelia Warner will stop at nothing to get what she wants: everything.Seventeen-year-old Amelia Warner is always on the outside. Moving from boarding school to boarding school with her brother and their father, the untenured professor, doesn't help. Amelia lives inches from the sons and daughters of the elite, forever looking in on the beautiful people. A natural-born charmer who doesn't lie so much as rework the truth to her advantage, Amelia is well-versed in the art of faking a high-society identity to get limited access to the luxe life, but she's never figured out how to truly belong. Then she meets Courtney Moore, the Upper East Side heiress who needs a friend as badly as Amelia wants to be that friend, and suddenly a world of opportunity opens up for her. Parties, shopping, her own wing in the Moore mansion—it's all hers for the taking, as long as she can keep her real life a secret, especially from the new acquaintance who's been asking way too many questions. Can Amelia stay one step ahead of the doubters to secure her place in the beautiful world?
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a story about reinvention, social ambition and the desire to belong. Amelia's access to an affluent world depends on managing appearances, while a new friendship creates both opportunity and pressure.
Amelia seeks entry into an affluent social circle after feeling like an outsider beside elite families.
Amelia forms a friendship with Courtney while hiding her real circumstances and presenting a carefully managed identity.
Amelia deliberately reworks the truth and keeps her real life secret.
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