The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell is the prequel to Sex and The City. It takes place in Carrie Bradshaw's home town New Jersey. Carrie is trying to make her way through her senior year of high school with her four close friends, Lali, The Mouse, Maggie, and Walt. She discovers new things about the people she thought she knew the most. She discovers one friend is pregnant, one is gay, and one is cheating on her boyfriend. Carrie has many problems of her own too. Her mother died when she was young, her sister is a juvenile delinquent and she is living her worst nightmare, a relationship with the mysterious bad boy, Sebastian Kydd. As an icing on the cupcake of her senior year, the queen bee of her high school is out to get her. Carrie's only place to let out her feelings is the writing of the anonymous, Pinky Weatherton in her highs school newspaper. The witty intellectual articles she writes reveal the truth about high school leaving the school in shock. As senior year ends Carrie clears the water with the people she loves. The last chapter of the book includes her going to New York with three hundred bucks and her mom's 80's leather shoulder bag, which sparks her exciting career.
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