School of Fortune Author:Amanda Brown, Janice Weber A fun, fresh frolic of a novel starring a spoiled but lovable Texas heiress out to reclaim her fortune — Pippa Walker’s wedding was to be huge—Texas huge—complete with twelve bridesmaids under contract from Pippa’s mother to stay lean and long-haired, gondolas flown in from Venice, A- and B- guest lists. But when P... more »ippa finds out her handsome husband-to-be isn’t what she thought, she bolts from her own wedding, shocking society and getting herself disinherited. The only way she can get a piece of the family fortune back is to earn a degree from a school. Any school. It’s a tough assignment for a girl who dropped out of SMU after pledging Kappa Kappa Gamma and shopping at Neiman’s for a year.
But Pippa is nothing if not up for a challenge. Attracting one hilarious misadventure after another, she tries to earn her sheepskin at: driving school, matchmaking school, even a circus academy. It’s only when she hits rock-bottom—The Mountbatten Savoy School of Household Management—that things begin to look up. But can she really be falling in love with a…valet?« less
When the world's most over-the-top wedding gets called off at the last minute by the world's ditziest heiress, she hits the road to escape the publicity, accompanied only by her ex-fiance's Maserati, a wallet full of credit cards, and a burning desire to get a diploma. Any kind of diploma.
If you can overlook the unlikely sequence of events, it's a fun ride. And when she ends up looking at the social habits of the Rich & Snarky from the other side, the book comes within hissing distance of social satire.