Beth Gutcheon is always a good bet, and she's written a social-life book herself, titled Gossip . I don't really like that title, it makes the book seem like some relation to Gossip Girl, which it's not. Anyway the book is very good and lively.
For fans of Edith Wharton, a reworking of The House of Mirth, with emails/photos replacing the secret letters : The Gilded Age: a novel by Claire McMillan. A Cleveland (!) debutante is the Lily Bart character, who returns home after New York and rehab, attempting to take off where she left off.