READ THIS: Nanny Returns By Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Nanny Diaries, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus have come up with another winner in Nanny Returns! For our avid readers of our READ THIS column, you know it has been seriously lacking in fiction for awhile and that is because we have not found many worthy fiction books. We found one here! And we are so pleased! Often times when you read a sequel you will be disappointed. You will not be disappointed here! Peachy Deegan had a hard time putting this down, (however she does need to eat, sleep and watch playoff football this time of year), and we think Nanny Returns will be a page-turner for you as well, especially if you read The Nanny Diaries.
Nan is back, a bit older and a bit wiser. She is a consultant. She is married. She has it together. Or does she? The more that things change in life, the more they stay the same in some circumstances. Without giving too much away, if you guessed the X family is back, you are correct! They are back more than ever....and the X factor in the Nanny Returns is highly entertaining. Did Grayer grow up? How do you define grown up?!?! The Upper East side and its inhabitants are fairly constant as well, and as much as we love the Upper East side, some of its stereotypes are not at all attractive, and McLaughlin and Kraus make them hilarious as well. Nanny Returns boasts characters that are unforgettable, that is all we will say! Who will she reconnect with? Does getting sick change someone? Has X Wealth Management come out on top in the financial climate that we all currently face? Park Avenue Drama is on full force.
We strongly recommend reading this book after The Nanny Diaries (it is not enough if you only saw the movie.) If you are not an inhabitant of Manhattan, take the stereotypes with a grain of salt. If you do live here, laugh away at them as you will recognize some things are true in real life but you know they all are not. The bottom line is values in life cannot be compromised, no matter how much money you have (money is always helpful though)...and nothing is more important than personal character and your relationships with people that matter. The wit of the authors, the problem juggling by Nan, and Murphy's Law taking over in many circumstances make this book a winner! Burst out your bright red umbrella and march yourself to the nearest bookstore to get your copy of Nanny Returns! It has earned a spot on Peachy Deegan's bookshelf, and surely it will be read again and again...Peachy was once a nanny!
***
In this highly-anticipated, long-awaited sequel to a #1 New York Times bestseller, Nan Hutchinson—or “Nanny”—returns to New York ten years after the events of The Nanny Diaries, and is once again drawn into the Manhattan elite’s world of decadence, power and wealth, and familial dysfunction.
Readers first fell in love with “Nanny” in 2002’s runaway New York Times bestseller, THE NANNY DIARIES. Her wry, humorous recounting of her time as a nanny for the insanely wealthy X family—and of the bizarre world that the Xes and their privileged, powerful friends live in—instantly made her a favorite heroine of readers, who bought over two million copies of the book. In 2007, fans saw Nan’s adventures with her troublesome charge, Grayer, and her burgeoning romance with her elevator crush, Harvard Hottie, come to life on the big screen in the Nanny Diaries movie featuring Scarlett Johansson.
Now, in NANNY RETURNS (Atria Books; $25.00; On-sale: December 2009, ISBN: 978-1-4165-8567-1), it’s almost ten years later, and Nan has just come back from abroad with her husband—H.H., now known just as Ryan. Mrs. X was a scary lady, but now Nan can be one too: she’s thirty-three, confident and successful, speaks three languages, and runs her own business … but when Grayer, now sixteen and more messed-up than ever, makes a drunken late-night visit to her apartment, Nan is sucked right back into the world of power, wealth, and dysfunction of the Upper East Side.
Awash with guilt for “abandoning” Grayer after the Xes kicked her out of their life when he was still a little boy, Nan agrees to do a simple favor for her grown-up charge and his smart, sweet little brother, Stilton. But the Xes are in the middle of a brutal, high-profile divorce; Mr. X is consumed by money troubles and his new actress fiancée, and Mrs. X is M.I.A. and possibly faking cancer for sympathy—and soon “one little favor” snowballs into an ever-more-bizarre series of events as Nan fights to make sure that someone is taking care of Grayer and Stilton … and to win back her beloved Grayer’s fractured trust.
Meanwhile, the rest of Nan’s life starts nose-diving like the economy. Ryan is working out of the country and practically unreachable, but still putting unexpected pressure on Nan to “start a family” of their own. Their “fixer-upper” house in Harlem is infested with toxic mold and other costly little renovation surprises. And, most of all, Nan’s experiences with the first major client in her consulting business—the Board of the ultra-elite Jarndyce prep school—are turning out to be sickeningly familiar: the Board is just as unreasonable and demanding as the UES parents she used to nanny for. Teachers—and Nan—are the new hired help, picking up where the nannies left off in the war for the well-being of the children of privilege.
Just as fresh, biting, and funny as The Nanny Diaries, but with the extra heart and wisdom of a few years’ experience, NANNY RETURNS brings both heroine and readers back to the exotic world of the Upper East Side—a community where appearances are everything, friendships can dissolve with the disappearance of a bank account, and children are often the casualties in the war between wealth and family.
* * *
About the Authors: Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus are the authors of three New York Times bestselling novels: The Nanny Diaries, Citizen Girl, and Dedication. Aside from their ongoing collaboration on novels, they also write for magazines, and are working on a romantic comedy for Paramount Pictures. Emma and Nicola have appeared numerous times on CNN, Today, Good Morning America, Entertainment Tonight, and the View, among other major media outlets. They live and work in New York City, and can be found online at www.emmaandnicola.com.
NANNY RETURNS
By Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Published by Atria Books
ISBN: 978-1-4165-8567-1
Pages: 352
Price: $25.00
On-sale Date: December 2009
Atria Books is an imprint of Simon & Schuster, part of the CBS Corporation, a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for consumers of all ages, across all printed, electronic, and audio formats. Its divisions include Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Simon & Schuster Audio, Simon & Schuster Online, and international companies in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit our website at www.simonandschuster.com
