Title: The Carrie Diaries
Author: Candace Bushnell
Published: 2010
Genre: Young Adult
Rating: 7/10
The Carrie Diaries is a prequel to the top-grossing HBO TV series, Sex and the City. The book takes us back to 1980, where we are introduced to teenage Carrie Bradshaw, Bushnell’s semi-fictional character touted as the author’s alter ego, thus explained by the initials CB .

