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Book Review of Nanny Returns (Nanny, Bk 2)

Nanny Returns (Nanny, Bk 2)
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Helpful Score: 1


Getting into this book took some time for me. There are a number of plotlines and an even larger number of characters in this complex, layered bit of chick lit. If you haven't read the original "Nanny Diaries", or it's been a while, you don't necessarily have to re-read it, Nan will catch you up. The book advances 12 years into Nanny's life: she's now a newlywed, just gotten her master's degree, and a new house and a new job when her former protege, Grayer X shows up on her doorstep one night and demands to know why she abandoned him all those years ago. Grayer draws her back into the lives of the X family and she attempts to reconnect with him and several of her old friends at the same time. This is a sharply funny send-up of the NYC elite population. I wasn't as drawn to this as I was to the original "Nanny Diaries", but this was still an interesting segue. I would advise packing a piece of paper to note character lists because there are a bunch of them and it is sometimes hard to keep them all straight.