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by Lippi The Older, Bolder, New Manhattan Man-Eaters:
Now available in the UK and with US sales soaring and the inevitably lucrative big-budget television series already planned, New York Times best-selling author Candace Bushnell’s latest novel is certainly off to a promising start. The obvious question is: will it be as ground-breaking, ball-breaking and trend-setting as its hugely popular predecessor, Sex and the City? In this novel, the four thirty-something sassy attitudes of SATC have been replaced with three forty-something sassy attitudes, still hell-bent on triumphantly rising up against the male-dominated, mercilessly mercenary world that is the gold-paved streets of corporate New York City. Still dressed elegantly in designer heels and other coveted accoutrements, and still blessed, or cursed, with sky-high libidos and ruthless ambition, arguably the only thing that sets this group of characters apart from Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte is a slightly more acute awareness of the rapidly encroaching menopause. A little bit older, a little bit wiser, perhaps? 1 of 2 continues...Page.. 2 |
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