Gossip Girl T.1 - Cecily von Ziegesar

Welcome to the Upper East Side, New York's chic neighborhood, where Olivia and her friends live.

They are young, rich, beautiful, and have an immoderate fondness for alcohol, partying, cigarettes... and obscenities. They attend New York's most prestigious private schools with the goal of getting into Yale or Harvard and making the best marriages, nothing less...

Welcome to a world of jealousy, envy, and betrayal where loves and friendships are made and unmade - all under the watchful eye of the mysterious Gossip Girl who sees everything, hears everything, and reports everything on the Internet in a column where she doesn't hesitate to distort the adventures and misadventures of her "friends" as she pleases.

Main course: the return from boarding school of the sublime Serena after a year's absence: she is the girl all boys desire and all girls want to be.

The little world of Olivia, her ex-best friend, and her inseparable viper-tongued girlfriends, is likely to be shaken up. Olivia will no longer be the star, she will no longer be the most beautiful, the most coveted.

And what if, in addition, Serena got the best grades, charmed all their teachers and, worse, stole Nate, her boyfriend? A wind of madness will blow over the world of scandal and gossip of these poor little rich girls!