Sex and The City author Candace Bushnell's new comic novel Killing Monica is due at the end of this month.
In the story, Pandy "PJ" Wallis’s novels about a young woman making her way in Manhattan led to a series of blockbuster films, but Pandy only wants to write a historical novel based on her ancestor Lady Wallis.
However, Pandy's publishers and audience want her to keep cranking out more Monica, as does husband, Jonny, who is deep in debt with his new restaurant in Las Vegas.
The marriage collapses and the boathouse of her family home in Connecticut goes up in flames. Pandy feels she must reconcile with her best friend, SondraBeth Schnowzer, who plays Monica on the big screen. But Monica can't be entirely trusted.
Keen Bushnell fans may spot the echoes from real life and indeed from Sex and the City and its cast-- intended or not - in the new yarn.
The wounds from her divorce from ballet dancer Charles Askegard are, mostly, healed, according to her interview with the New York Daily News.
“I was married for almost 10 years,” she declared. “He was traveling all the time, I was traveling all the time. You spend more and more time apart because of your careers and then it’s like you’re best friends. We went in separate directions.”
Killing Monica will be published on June 23.
