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
Sex and the City Noth), a prominent businessman and an aficionado of jazz and cigars whose real name is revealed in the final episode (Season 6, Episode 8) to be John James Preston, in a tumultuous, on-and-off-again relationship. (In a running joke, whenever Carrie is about to introduce Mr. Big on-camera to another character, she is interrupted before she can say his name.) He is the reason for many of Carrie's breakdowns as he never seems ready to fully commit to her. He is once-divorced by the time the series opens. Carrie and Big break up when he leaves New York for a work