The Nanny Diaries: A Novel (Oct 2003)

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Nanny works for the wealthy Mr. & Mr.s X watching their son Grayer while finishing out her Masters degree. Things begin well enough, although Mrs. X has her quirks, but the situation goes further and further south as Mrs. X takes advantage of her employee and pushes the boundaries Nanny has set while imposing more and more outrageous demands of her own, Mr. X's mistress starts to consider Nanny part of the Mr. X package, and Nanny finds herself attached to and concerned for their son in the ensuing confusion.


Impression: I was laughing from the very beginning, but, then, I can kinda relate. I was a live-in nanny for a summer. Granted, the family I worked for wasn't as wacked out as the one in this book, but they had their moments as well. I definitely want a copy of this book for my own - it's something i want to be able to reread again.

I actually received this from a kind fellow bookcrooser and have already shared it with my 14-year-old who read it in a day and thought it was funny. It'll be going on to the 16-year-old, then it will be released into the wild, maybe at oldest's high school. :)



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