Then there are her other best-sellers: Lipstick Jungle (she also executive produced the Brooke Shields-helmed TV show), One Fifth Avenue, Trading Up and Four Blondes. It lasted for six seasons and was so popular it spawned two movies. She is, of course, a publishing powerhouse whose "Sex and the City" columns, which she wrote for the New York Times, were eventually turned into a hit TV series. Those who have met Bushnell describe her as having a steely focus. Her agent had demanded there be no personal questions - a difficult task given how easily the parallels can be drawn between Bushnell and Bradshaw, both of whom upped sticks from Connecticut and moved to New York in their teens to pursue a career in writing. Yet the early impression was that Bushnell would be hard work. Fans of the TV series would likely baulk at the prospect of the original Carrie being anything other than the friend they never had. But it's okay, she's happy to talk today. Today's interview, when the phone finally reaches her pad in Greenwich Village, was meant to be tomorrow.
"I can't go and stand at a cocktail party or a dinner party, I can't do it," she sighs. A few weeks ago, she was bucked off a horse, cracking her pelvis. She can't afford Manolo Blahniks but she has developed a love of vintage - which unfortunately extends to wearing medical scrubs.Īs for Bushnell, she's more likely to be dressing like the young Carrie. She hasn't yet penned a newspaper column but she has written a terrible play. Carrie hasn't yet lost her virginity in the latest book but she has met a Mr Big-type who calls her "kid". It's certainly how you'd imagine the younger Carrie, portrayed in Bushnell's two latest novels, The Carrie Diaries (about her high school years) and Summer in the City (about her arrival in New York). But I can't throw them out in case I need them." And then they just pile up and I never look at them again. "Ugghh! I'm always, like, writing down ideas for themes. "I'm, like, a big note-taker," says the 52-year-old in her school-girlish New York drawl. The New York writer who created the basis for the TV series Sex and the City, exudes the youthful spirit we're used to identifying with her alter ego, Carrie Bradshaw. It's easy to picture Candace Bushnell sitting cross-legged on her bed, tapping away at her laptop, in between bouts of shoe-shopping and bonking. Rebecca Barry Hill talks to the original Carrie Bradshaw, Candace Bushnell. Just when you thought Sex and the City had taken its last gasp, the creator of the iconic characters releases two novels for younger readers.
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