Janey Wilcox wants to be on top.

Not since author Candace Bushnell created Carrie Bradshaw and Sex and the City has there been a heroine like Janey Wilcox. Janey is a beautiful yet struggling social climber determined to survive in New York. Readers first met Janey in Bushnell's international bestseller 4 Blondes. Now, Janey's back, with a major modeling contract, a Porsche Boxster, and big plans.

As Janey attends the hottest party in the Hamptons, the reader is drawn into a seemingly glamorous world of $100,000 cars, hunky polo players, media moguls, and relationships whose hidden agendas are detectable only by the socially astute. But look out! As Janey is pulled into this whirlwind, unseen forces conspire to bring her down.

Trading Up is a hilarious tour de force by the writer who made Manolo Blahniks a household name. Searingly observant and bitingly witty, the novel takes aim at a world in which one can never be rich enough, well dressed enough, or high enough in the social order. Like Jane Austen, Bushnell lovingly skewers a society she knows well. Readers will enjoy watching Janey rise, fall, and pick herself up again and again.