Synopses & Reviews
What happens after happily-ever-after fades? Can the answer be found one flight up?
India, Abby, Esme, and Monique have all been friends since their days at Manhattan’s Sibley School for Girls. From the outside, these four women—all grown up now—seem to be living ideal lives, yet each finds herself suddenly craving more.
India Chumley is a whip-smart divorce lawyer who routinely declines the marriage proposals of her charming French boyfriend, Julien. She’s taking the first plunge by moving in with him, but she’s keeping her own apartment—and keeping it a secret from him.
Abby Rosenfeld Adams is an irrepressibly upbeat gallery owner who married her WASP college sweet heart, a passionate but tormented sculptor. When she suspects he is cheating on her, she realizes that perhaps there’s more to life than reassuring her husband of his artistic brilliance.
Esme Sarmiento Talbot is a Colombian Scarlett O’Hara, bored with her proper Connecticut life and her tame, all-American husband. In order to satisfy her sensuality, she escapes to Manhattan and distracts herself with casual encounters.
A card-carrying member of Harlem’s thriving buppie-ocracy and a successful gynecologist, Monique Dawkins-Dubois is married to a powerful but dull financier who barely notices her anymore. When an attractive coworker beckons, Monique can’t help but be flattered.
The most straitlaced of them all, India is dismayed by her friends’ illicit activities. That is, until her ex-fiancé, the love of her life and the destroyer of her heart, reappears in New York— and she finds herself caught between the dependable man she thought was her future and the man she never quite let go of.
Dazzling and sexy, One Flight Up is an irresistible comedic romp through the boardrooms, bedrooms, and ballrooms of Manhattan and Paris.
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“I had a ball reading One Flight Up. I wish the characters were real so we might have lunch! Susan Fales-Hill has written a fun, fabulous, New York story that you won’t be able to put down! Here’s your summer read!” —Adriana Trigiani, author of Very Valentine
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“Are you questioning what it’s like to take a detour on the wild side? One Flight Up is a juicy excursion into where our most precious dreams may lead” —Veronica Webb, model and author
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“A smart, stylish, and sexy New York story, told with humor and flair. Susan Fales-Hill’s writing is effortlessly chic, and her perceptive take on modern relationships will have readers talking.” —Paula Froelich, author of Mercury in Retrograde and former New York Post Page Six Deputy Editor
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“One Flight Up is a hilarious story of four smart, feisty friends, each at their own romantic crossroads, who find their way—and ultimately themselves—with the help of each other” —Jill Kargman, author of The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund and Arm Candy
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"Susan Fales-Hill writes a dazzling narrative of New York's
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"One Flight Up is one flight of fancy. Sexy, fun and fresh."
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“Susan Fales-Hill has written a compulsively readable tale of female friendship, romance and social mores in today’s New York. One Flight Up is filled with humor, heart and insight.” —Emily Listfield, author of Waiting to Surface
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"A sassy summer beach read" —Vogue
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“Frank and funny… A wise and wicked peek into the overstuffed closets and medicine cabinets of New York’s contemporary gilded set” —Essence
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"A chick lit masterpiece that leaves Jackie Collins in the dust." —The New York Post
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"The author, writing from a suitable Park Avenue address, confects a novel of four privileged Manhattan women—a divorce lawyer, a gynecologist, a gallery owner, and an heiress—and their menfolk. " —Harvard Magazine
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"One Flight Up is a delectable journey into the minds, bedrooms and closets of women who occupy Manhattan's buttery brown upper crust.
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“Susan Fales-Hill writes a dazzling narrative of New York’s social diorama with wit, irony and great humor” —Andre Leon Talley, Editor at Large, Vogue
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“One Flight Up is one flight of fancy. Sexy, fun and fresh.” —Michael Patrick King, writer and director of the HBO series and film, Sex and the City
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“One Flight Up is a delectable journey into the minds, bedrooms and closets of women who occupy Manhattan’s buttery brown upper crust. Gasp-worthy plot twists will have Madames screaming advice to the sometimes morally challenged foursome. With a delightfully satisfying ending and a cast of endearing characters, Fales-Hill’s debut novel is a must read.” —Madame Noire
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A delicious debut novel about four Manhattan women, who, for a variety of reasons, stray from their partners.
About the Author
Susan Fales-Hill is an award-winning television writer and producer (The Cosby Show, Suddenly Susan, and A Different World) and the author of One Flight Up and the acclaimed memoir Always Wear Joy. She is a contributing editor at Essence, and her writing has also appeared in Vogue, Town & Country, and Good Housekeeping. Susan lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.