From high-flying financiers to immigrant workers, no one has escaped the financial crisis. But how did it happen exactly?

City Girl lucidly exposes it. Before her eyes, bonuses vanished, and entire banks (and countries) went bankrupt. City Girl was watching when the boys thought they were masters of the universe. She was there when they blew their bonuses on Lamborghinis and lap dancers. She was fighting for survival as they sent the country into the worst slump since the Great Depression.

She worked for stockbrokers in the shadow of the Bank of England, competed against the bad-boy brokers of Canary Wharf, and worked with super-rich hedge-fund managers in the sleek streets of Mayfair. She met, married and divorced her very own City Boy. She made and lost millions of pounds. She's seen it all, done it all and lived to tell the tale.

This is her story. City Girl gives us the inside track on life in the financial capital of the world. She's here to tell us what went wrong – and why the girls are the only ones who can put it right.

"Confessions of a Citygirl" will be published in trade paperback in August 2009, and is being pitched as “the devil wears pinstripes.”