Summer and the City her along the way, she meets Samantha Jones, a true Manhattan fashionista who's determined on the path of fame and fortune, and the opinionated feminist Miranda Hobbes who is a freshman at New York University. 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
Carrie Bradshaw lived with her father and younger sister, Dorrit. She had a few relationships, the main one being her on and off relationship with Sebastian Kydd. She started working at "Interview", a magazine firm, juggling between her school and work life. The series was discontinued after Season 2 as it was said that it was not economically feasible although it got positive feedback from its audience. Candace Bushnell, author of "Sex and the City", recently released her new book, "Summer and the City: A Carrie Diaries Novel" as part of her young adult series that follows the "Sex and the City"