Summer and the City Summer and the City Summer and the City is a young-adult novel written by Candace Bushnell. The sequel to "The Carrie Diaries" and the prequel to "Sex and the City", it was first released as a hardcover on April 26, 2011. Picking up where "The Carrie Diaries" left off, seventeen-year-old Carrie Bradshaw has left her hometown and treks to New York City. Set during the summer before her freshman year at Brown, Carrie learns to navigate her way through the Big Apple, takes a writing class at The New School, and even pursues a relationship with an older man. Joining
Samantha Jones (Sex and the City) Samantha Jones (Sex and the City) Samantha Jones is a fictional character on the HBO-produced television series "Sex and the City" and its CW-produced prequel series "The Carrie Diaries". She is portrayed by actresses Kim Cattrall and Lindsey Gort. Cattrall received a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal. Samantha Jones is one of four single friends portrayed in the series, a public relations worker who is a proud, confident, highly sexual woman. Most of her story lines revolve around the frequent sex and brief affairs she has. She is outspoken and a self-proclaimed "try-sexual"