title: Party Girl: A Novel
author:  Sarah Mason 
description: At the start of Brit Mason's amusing latest (after <i>Society Girls</i>), Isabel "Izzy" Serranti is newly dumped, plumped and certain that her future as an event planner is in danger. Family connections net her the bash of a lifetime, but the big eventa swank charity ballis set to take place at Pantiles, the ancestral estate of her childhood best friend turned tormentor, Simon Monkwell, England's hottest financier. Everything gets turned on its head, though, when Simon confesses that the estate is a financial disaster; he needs Izzy's help to spruce up Pantiles to reassure his American investors. Mason borrows from Helen Fielding: Izzy frets over her weight, her ill-conceived outfits and her clumsy shenanigans; much like Mark Darcy, Simon is disciplined, dangerously handsome and enamored with a clumsy, pudgy girl. Mason's creativity comes through in her winningly eccentric cast of secondary characters, but there are too many of them and their attendant complications: Izzy's parents fly in from Tokyo to explain an old family scandal, Pantile's housekeeper's estranged husband stops by for a pint and Izzy's best friend admits he's shagging her sister. Kiss Simon, Izzy, and get on with it! Eventually she does, in this fun if familiar story. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: Party f or Two
  Mason B rooks owns half of B uck' s Creek, Iowa. He grew up in the
  small town but left for bigger and better things when he graduated
  high school. Mason enjoyed his life in the corporate world of New
  York City until his sick grandfather called him home to take over the
  family businesses. Now he' s stuck in B uck' s Creek out of obligation.
  When he' s invited to a New Year' s Eve party at The Tower, he wants
  to refuse, but he can' t. He' s expected to be there. It doesn' t take long
  for Mason to zero in on the thick curvy goddess of his dreams who' s
  spilling out of a lowcut dress getting hit on by several men.
  Deanna Grant is only at this party because her best friend insisted
  they come. She' d rather ring in the new year at home snuggled up in
  bed with a good book and snacks. Instead, she' s at this party
  wearing the only dress she could find that sort of fits and feeling
  incredibly uncomfortable surrounded by men who are looking at her
  like the only thing she has to of