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The Carrie Diaries, published in 2010, chronicles the senior year of high school in Carrie Bradshaw’s life, as she navigates her way through friendships, school girl crushes and high school rivalries, before ultimately moving to New York to start her life as a writer. Summary Of The Book What was Carrie Bradshaw like before she moved to New York and became a successful columnist? The Carrie Diaries talks about friendships and betrayals, crushes and teen rivalries, the stuff that high school years are made up of, and the impact they had on Carrie, in shaping her life and helping her blossom into the self-confident Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City. Young and naive Carrie Bradshaw aspires to be a writer someday, and has her heart set on joining the writing program at The New School. Her application, however, is rejected and she puts her plans of becoming a writer on hold, while attending her senior year in high school. The year proves to be an interesting one as she makes new best friends, gets into a relationship with Sebastian Kydd, a smart, wealthy boy from school who seems perfect, and finds herself vying for his attention and getting into conflicts with the most popular girl in school. However, when things in school start to go wrong, causing her to doubt herself, Carrie learns to handle the rough spots and comes out stronger, moving closer to her dreams of becoming a writer. The book received generally favourable reviews, especially from the Los Angeles Times. The Carrie Diaries was adapted for television by the CW Network, and its first episode was telecast on January 14th, 2013. About Candace Bushnell During her early years as a writer, celebrated American author and columnist Candace Bushnell struggled with making ends meet; freelancing for various publications before hitting it big with Sex and the City. Success soon followed suit, with many bestselling novels like Summer and the City, One Fifth Avenue, Lipstick Jungle, Trading Up, and Four Blondes, some of which have been turned into television series that are fairly successful in their own right. It was a humorous column that she wrote for The New York Observer (1994-96), based on her personal experiences as a single woman dating in New York, that led to the making of her book Sex and the City (1996) and subsequently, the immensely successful HBO series (1998-2004) and two major Hollywood movies that were box-office hits (2008 and 2010), starring Sarah Jessica Parker in the lead role of Carrie Bradshaw. Once married, now divorced, Candace Bushnell was born on Dec 1, 1958, in Connecticut. She attended Rice University and moved to New York at the age of 19, where she studied at New York University. She began writing for The New York Observer in 1993.