Introduces a group of five best friends who live in London and call themselves the English Roses.

Nicole is excited about her friend from New York, Leslie, joining the English Roses, but once the other girls meet Leslie, they realize she is snooty and everyone but Nicole agrees they don't want to be her friend.

Amy is depressed after her mother announces that she is pregnant and they need to cancel their trip to Milan, and after Amy and her friends take Charlotte's bratty little brother, Patrick, to the circus she is even more convinced that a younger sibling is the last thing she wants.

The English Roses scramble around trying to get ready for the holiday and their Secret Santa gift exchange; but Charlotte goes over the top tracking down the perfect gift for popular Evelyn Eaves.

When Amy's mother gets a job working behind the scenes at a fashion event, Amy looks forward to honing her design skills, but when a talent scout persuades Amy to be a runway model, she starts to turn into a fashion monster and endanger her friendship with the English Roses.

Nicole and Amy attend a creative arts camp in Wales for vacation, and when Binah visits Grace in Atlanta, she experiences motion sickness on her first overseas holiday and becomes homesick once she arrives, leaving Grace and her family to make everything better.