We learn how she deals with this treachery, the school bully and the class heartthrob. Which is where Carrie and her merry band of friends fall.Ĭarrie Bradshsaw is in what she thinks of as a solid cirle of friends until they are rocked by the behaviour of one, the one from her childhood. Both have a gay character, and the usual but interesting American stories of who are the popular kids and who are the geeks and everything in between. This confused me somewhat as the story is so similar in that the film is also about the last year of school, actually the last day. I read in three days in the middle of which I went to see the excellent Booksmart film.

The Carrie Diaries chronicles her last year in school before she goes to college. For super-fans it will be no surprise to learn that Carrie had a comfortable upbringing with her two sisters in NY’s neighbour, Connecticut and lost her mum as a teenager. It fills in the gaps of what drew Carrie Bradshaw to New York and to writing. It wins on having a great cover and it is exactly what I hoped. I must have bought it as a pity buy as it was closing and I wanted to get something. I had no idea where or why I had bought it until three quarters of the way through, out popped a bookmark from my favourite book shop in Vancouver. The only issue is I read it in three days. The Carrie Diaries had been sitting on my TBR pile for years until last month when it fitted my criteria of reading the lightest of frothiest fluff in an attempt to remove myself from the world we currently find oursleves in. I was packing for a house move and watched a couple of episodes each evening while surrounded by brown boxes, tape and bubble wrap. I wasn’t but begrudgingly got into after the series ended in 2008 as friends were constantly recommending it. If you’re a fan of Sex and the City, you’ll already know what this is about and may well have read it.

The carrie diaries by candace bushnell