Summer in the City is a novel written by Candace Bushnell. It was published in 2011. It’s a sequel to Candace Bushnell’s previous book ”The Carrie Diaries”. She has also written all the ”Sex and the city” books. There is also a TV series and two movies which are based to her books.
The book tells about 17-year-old girl named Carrie Bradshaw, who moves to New York for a summer, so she could go to a writing class. Everyone who has ever watched or read Sex and the City TV series or books, knows about Carries friends Samatha, Miranda and Charlotte. In this book you find out how they all met each other. Carrie experiences a lot of things and gets involved to many kind of situations. Everything starts from the situation when she gets in New York in the very first time and someone steals her bag and all the information about where she should be living for the next few months. All she has is a address of a woman called Samatha Jones, who is Carries schoolmates cousin and lives in New York. That’s how she met Samatha. They become friends and after Carrie gets kicked out from the place where she lives, she moves to Samathas place. Carrie meets Miranda, when Miranda founds Carries stolen bag and returns it to Carrie. Carrie doesn’t have many friends in New York yet so she asks Miranda for a coffee and that’s how their friendship starts. After being in New York for a while she meets a playwright, over 30-year-old Bernard Singer, and starts to date him. His lifestyle and scheme of things are quite different than Carries and that causes a little bit troubles. These and lot of other things happens to Carrie in this book, but those you will find out if you read the book yourself.
The narrator of the book is Carrie herself, so the things are described for her view. In the book are mentioned a lot of people, but the main characters are Carrie, Samatha, Miranda, Bernard, Carries dad and her sisters, Victor, who is the teacher of the writing class and Ryan, Capote and Lily, whom are Carries classmates.
I chose this book because I have read this in Finnish for a couple times already and I like it a lot and I thought that it would be nice to read this in English too. I have also read Candace Bushnells other books and I think that her books are awesome. The book was quite long but something was all the time happening in it so it wasn’t boring at all. Every time when I started to read it, it hooked me and I just couldn’t stop reading. And it’s a sign of a very good book.