Kraus Nicola | McLaughlin Emma: Dnevnici jedne dadilje

Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin: The Nanny Diaries

 The miniature studio apartment in Manhattan would be absolutely unaffordable if Nan, a fourth-year pedagogy student at New York University, did not work as a nanny for wealthy Park Avenue families in her spare time. Nan is young, American, educated, from a good family, speaks French, loves children, in a word, the ideal Nana for four-year-old Graynor X, whose "working day" is filled with all possible children's activities that money can buy in Manhattan. His mother, Mrs. X, in her busy schedule between charity receptions, frenzied shopping and gossip parties, hardly finds time for anything but bursts of orders to numerous servants. Mr. X doesn't seem to exist, except in his disembodied form as the voice on the other end of the phone line, his demanding tasks in the stratosphere of corporate adultery robbing him of every spare second he might be able to devote to his son or, God forbid, his wife. What is Nan even doing in such a dysfunctional family, why does she masochistically allow Mrs. X to bully her with her whims day in and day out, why can't she say "No" to saying "Yes", will she manage to catch the handsome man from the tenth floor, where will she fit the thesis writing into this madness, is it possible that she has decided to commit the biggest mistake of all nannies: to protect little Graynor from two emotional corpses who happen to be his biological parents... *** Former nannies Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, after the great success of the joint novel Diaries of a Nanny, signed a contract with Random House for the continuation of the novel, as well as a new one - Citizen Girl. While the then-unknown Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus received a "miserable" $25,000 advance from the publishing house "St. Martin's Press" for their literary debut The Nanny Diaries (Dnevniki eden dalije), this new contract, according to unconfirmed information, weighs as much as $3,000,000, which was not too much for a publishing giant like "Random House" because obviously "smells" excellent earnings. Diaries of a Nanny is a big book hit, spent 29 weeks on the influential "New York Times" bestseller list, with 800,000 copies sold. "hardcover", so the same is expected from the sequel, as well as from future book projects by young authors. But before the continuation, they will publish the humorous novel Citizen Girl, of which they only showed a fragment of 18 pages, but even that was enough to sign a great contract. Emma and Nicky met as students at the University in New York, and they learned the nanny trade by working for about thirty mostly well-to-do families for years. Commenting on Diaries of a Nanny, they point out that there is no exaggeration in the entertaining story about Mrs. and Mr. X. and their four-year-old son Grayer, but that it is a typical situation where rich parents do not have time to deal with their children/family, or even for themselves. (KK7)