Jill Kargman Books In Order

Novels

  1. The Right Address (2004)
  2. Wolves in Chic Clothing (2005)
  3. Bittersweet Sixteen (2006)
  4. Momzillas (2007)
  5. Jet Set (2008)
  6. The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund (2009)
  7. Arm Candy (2010)
  8. The Rock Star in Seat 3A (2012)

Picture Books

  1. Pirates and Princesses (2011)

Non fiction

  1. Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut (2011)
  2. Sprinkle Glitter on My Grave (2016)

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Jill Kargman Books Overview

The Right Address

The Right Address sears through the upper crust of New York’s glittering Park Avenue scene to dish the dirt on the ladies who lunch, the gents who club, and the desperate climbers who will stop at nothing to join the backstabbing, champagne sipping, socialite eat socialite stratosphere.

When Melanie Sartomsky, wily Floridian flight attendant, snares billionaire divorc e Arthur the coffin king Korn, she is catapulted into the cr me de la cr me of Park Avenue society, where hiring the wrong decorator is tantamount to social suicide, and where, if you re anyone, your personal assistant has a personal assistant. But Melanie quickly discovers that in the world of the rich and idle, malicious gossip is as de rigeur as owning twenty pairs of Manolo Blahniks. And despite her frenzied plunge into the charity circuit and the right dinner reservations, her neighbors are Givenchy clad vultures who see her as nothing more than a reinvented trailer trollop. To make matters worse, when a snide society rag journalist rakes her over the coals, Melanie s reputation is toast.
Meanwhile, Melanie is not the only billionaire in the neighborhood coming unhinged. Kleptomania, adultery, plagiarism, and a grisly Harlem sex murder are just a few of the secrets swirling under the pedigreed patina of furs and emeralds on Park Avenue.
Authors Jill Kargman and Carrie Karasyov know a thing or two about their subject matter. They met at the Upper East Side s chic Spence School and claim that The Right Address is inspired by the insane socialites we ve eavesdropped on our entire lives. Meow.
So kick off your Jimmy Choos, crack open the Veuve Clicquot, and get ready for a rollicking, unforgettable tour of the richer and bit*chier than thou set.

Wolves in Chic Clothing

In The Right Address, Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman seared through the upper crust of New York’s glitterati with wicked glee. In their delicious new novel, Wolves in Chic Clothing, they train their merciless spotlight on the young princes and princesses poised to inherit Park Avenue.

Julia, a hip, downtown salesgirl at Pelham s jewelry store, finds her social life turned on its head when she is asked to deliver a necklace to the store s young heiress, Lell Pelham, on Lell s wedding day. Beguiled by Julia s earnest cluelessness and her vintage chic vibe, Lell and her gang adopt Julia, and Eliza Doolittle her into passing as the heiress to a family fortune, just for a laugh.

Dazed by the whirlwind of trust funds, pedigrees, Cosmopolitans, and penthouses in her new world, Julia is unprepared for the ardent advances of Lell s husband or the vicious claws her new friends develop when they decide Julia is an ingrate, and demote her from society goddess to penniless cling on with one well timed editorial. Suddenly, she must return the borrowed couture clothes and try to remember who she was before the body snatching took place.

Hilarious and completely addictive, Wolves in Chic Clothing is a modern day rags to riches and back again fairy tale that will leave fans stamping their Manolo Blahniks for more.

From the Hardcover edition.

Bittersweet Sixteen

A brand new wardrobe from Saks A private jet to Holland to select the perfect tulip A guest list that rivals red carpet after parties And a birthday bash that blows all others completely out of the water Okay, it’s not your average birthday wish list, but Whitney Blake and Sophie Mitchum are anything but average. I’m Laura Finnegan thrift store junkie and scholarship student at Tate, our posh all girls high school in Manhattan. Needless to say, I’m not like Whit and Soph gorgeous, popular, and filthy rich but that doesn’t stop us from being BFFs. Sophomore year was going great, until they started tuning in to the all Sweet Sixteen, all the time channel. Now tempers are flaring, Prada bags are flying, and guys are being tossed around in vicious tug of war battles. All this, just to see whose Sweet Sixteen reigns supreme?

Momzillas

A hilarious and deliciously scathing send up of motherhood as practiced in the upper echelons of Manhattan society, from the coauthor of The Right Address and Wolves in Chic Clothing.

The mothers on Manhattan’s chic Upper East Side are highly educated, extremely wealthy, and very competitive. They throw themselves and all of their energy and resources into full time child rearing, turning their kids into the unwitting pawns in a game where success is measured in precocious achievements, jam packed schedules, and elite private school pedigrees.

Hannah Allen has recently moved to the neighborhood with her New York City bred investment banker husband and their two year old daughter, Violet. She s immediately inundated by an outpouring of advice from her not so well intentioned new friends and her overbearing, socially conscious mother in law, who coach her on matters ranging from where to buy the must have $300 baby dress to how to get into the only pre pre preschool that counts. Despite her better instincts and common sense, Hannah soon finds herself caught up in the competitive whirl of high stakes mothering.

Jet Set

I’m Lucy Peterson, and let me tell you I don’t fit in at my new boarding school in Switzerland at all. Caviar at every meal, white tie affairs because black tie is so last season, trips to Geneva to pick up the latest couture, and real live royals lurking around every corner? None of that is really my speed. I’m just your average American teen, here on scholarship, ready to kick some academic and tennis butt so I can have my pick of Ivy League colleges.

Only now I’m falling all over myself to impress my crush, who just happens to be a prince, I’ve gotten myself tangled up in a tabloid disaster literally and the ‘It’ clique on campus has decided that I am worthy of their evil scorn. What have I gotten myself into?

The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund

The year is 2006, the apex of excess. Married to the founder of Comet Capital, Holly Talbott is slowly becoming a reluctant Mrs. Hedgefund. Sure, it’s great to live in a world that is seemingly sheltered from the threat of economic collapse and the risk of having to downsize from new Roger Viviers to consignment Manolos. Holly loves being a stay at home mom to her son, Miles, keeping house accounts at all the best places in town, and having a Rolodex of eager donors for her fund raisers for the local hospital, but there are some downsides to this world of excess and secluded luxury. For starters, there are endless black tie functions where the hedgie men vie to show up their competition with bids at charity auctions on matzoh ball soup cooked by Rachael Ray $675,000 and fifteen minutes with Warren Buffett $700,000. Holly and her sister in law, Kiki, joke that lunches are called luncheons because they take eons, that even BOTOX can t stop their mother in law s withering stares, and that their husbands are away so often it almost feels like they are single again.

When an adventure with Kiki to trendy Williamsburg leads to a shocking discovery, Holly soon learns that not all of her husband s trips have been for business. Forced to choose between compromising her integrity and living honestly, Holly begins to navigate a new New York existence. And while being a divorc e may make her a pariah to the other moms on the Upper East Side, below Fifty seventh Street there is a world of new career and dating prospects to explore. Holly soon finds that sometimes exes have all the fun, and in the most unexpected places…
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Arm Candy

‘Queen of the beach read’ Washington Post Express Jill Kargman, returns with an uproarious tale about searching for love and starts anew on the cusp of forty. For two decades, thirty nine year old Eden Clyde has been enjoying wealth and glamour as the muse and lover of Otto Clyde, the ultrafamous and much older king of the art world. Genetically, she hit the lottery, but Eden is unlucky in love: eighteen years ago she put aside her dream of true love and marriage and turned a blind eye to Otto’s philandering in exchange for a life without want. In her younger days this seemed like a fair bargain, but as forty looms overhead and as the beauty for which she’s known begins to fade she feels the cost of the arrangement finally taking its toll on her happiness. Eden leaves their cozy downtown loft for New York’s frostier upper east Side, where she begins to search for the girl and the life she left so many years ago. With the encouragement of a raucous but lovable group of girlfriends, Eden soon finds herself embroiled in a heated love affair with Gotham’s most eligible bachelor: the much younger Chase Lydon. But just as their relationship is getting serious, an old flame resurfaces. Does Eden want the life she’s living and loving right now, or the love she left behind? On the brink of her fortieth birthday, it’s time for Eden to follow her heart, but this time not even Eden is sure where that will lead. Poignant and laugh out loud funny, and written with heart and humor, Arm Candy shows that although forty may sometimes feel like the ultimate F word, its never too late to find true love.

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