The Carrie Diaries The Carrie Diaries The Carrie Diaries is a young adult novel, the first in a series of the same name by American author Candace Bushnell. The series is a prequel to Bushnell's 1997 collection "Sex and the City", and follows the character of Carrie Bradshaw during her senior year of high school during the early 1980s and part of her life in New York City working as a writer. The "Los Angeles Times" described it as "[a]n addictive, ingenious origin story." "The Carrie Diaries" focuses on Carrie Bradshaw, a high-school student who lives in Castleberry, Connecticut. Carrie is followed through
The Carrie Diaries high-school starting her junior year, continuing through the summer, and ending at senior year graduation. Carrie, her friends, and family are shown going through many different trials during this time. Carrie handles these well, including having a few boyfriends along the way. She and her dad have disagreements but do not come to blows until the end of the book. Carrie's final decision to not attend Brown University contributes to her living with her eventual lifelong friend Samantha Jones. This sets up Carrie as the precedent of a main character in "Sex and the City". "The Carrie Diaries" received generally