I Heart New York: A Novel

Lindsey Kelk

Sep 2010 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

”I’ll read anything she writes” — Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author

The perfect book for Sex and the City and Emily in Paris fans, I Heart New York by Lindsey Kelk truly celebrates the city that never sleeps.

It’s official. Angela Clarke is in love—with the most fabulous city in the world.

When Angela catches her boyfriend with another woman at her best friend’s wedding, she’s heartbroken and desperate to run away. (Especially once she’s confronted the bride and inadvertently broken the groom’s hand, in front of the entire reception!) Fleeing the messy situation and clutching little more than a crumpled bridesmaid dress, a pair of Louboutins, and her passport, Angela jumps on a plane, destination—NYC.

Taking refuge in a charming hotel room, Angela befriends Jenny, an effervescent concierge on the lookout for a new best friend. With the help of a New York-style makeover, some serious retail therapy, and a whirlwind tour of the city, Angela finds herself juggling two irresistibly sexy men and landing her dream gig as a writer, chronicling her New York adventures for a prestigious fashion magazine. But while it's one thing to dish about your romantic escapades to readers, it's quite another to unravel the complexities of your own heart. Angela may have fallen head over heels for the Big Apple, but is her love for New York stronger than her ties back home?

I Heart New York is funny, sunny, and sexy; a big hearted, Big Apple treat for Sofia Kinsella and Emily Griffin readers.

Ratings and reviews

I'm going to try to be as nice as possible. This book was really obnoxiously pretentious and kind of unbearable. I honestly bought it because I was looking for a book set in New York and what I got was that kind of cotton candy chick lit story 'flavored' like NYC. I can't decide which insinuation this book makes is worse; that the absolute most tragic thing that can happen to a person is that they can break up with their lover, that assuming a break up did have such a destructive impact on a person's life, that can all be repaired by simply going out shopping, buying an ungodly amount of name brand clothing, handbags, designer shoes, etc or frankly that we should even care about this rather boring, stupid but worst of all privileged and entitled protagonist who breaks her back to come across as lonely and unique, when in fact I can say without a single shred of doubt that everything that happens to her in this novel is honestly a result of her own doing. Honestly, what this book does get right is that in scenes when the protagonist's friends are giving her that 'tough love' treatment and calling her out for being indecisive and unable to make up her mind for herself, they couldn't be any more right than I suspect even they know. I acknowledge that this book was perhaps written for a certain kind of reader, one that I certainly am not, so if you are looking for an incredibly dull, vain, materialistic, FICTIONAL version of NYC look no further.

i loved this book, it was brillant its a favourite of mine, i cant count the amount of times iv read it.

Great storytelling, imagination that still totally relate with real life

About the author

Lindsey Kelk is an author, journalist, and prolific tweeter. Previously a children’s book editor and columnist for Marie Claire, Lindsey is now a full-time writer and lives in Los Angeles. She is published in twenty-two countries and her novels, including the I Heart series, the Tess Brookes series, and standalones, have sold over a million copies worldwide.