Lauren Weisberger, author of The Devil Wears Prada is back with a new novel picking up several years after the first book left off.
In The Wives, or as it’s called in America, When Life Gives You Lululemons, follows the story of where Emily is now. Lauren spoke to Dave Fanning on The Ryan Tubridy Show about what Emily is up to these days.
"It’s one of these very, very affluent, well-to-do suburbs of New York City that I think probably looks a lot like affluence of big cities everywhere and Emily is pulled there rather against her will to… help a friend who’s been accused wrongly of something terrible."
The original book, The Devil Wears Prada, was inspired by Lauren’s year spent working at Vogue magazine under iconic editor Anna Wintour and almost happened by accident.
"I was taking a writing class at night. I had left Vogue and was working at a travel magazine and was really doing a creative writing workshop and just thought, this is kind of a crazy experience I had that I’m going to just explore for the workshop…
"It was after about a year and a half of that that I had accumulated enough material that my teacher said, I really think this could be a book."
The Devil Wears Prada not only became a book but sat for a full year on the New York Time’s best sellers list. Dave was curious to know if Lauren anticipated the attention and the backlash that would follow its publication.
"Truthfully I had no idea, I was so young, I was no naive, it was not something that I had ever even considered… I had absolutely no idea of what would come of it at all so had I known I might have been a little more nervous.
"I thought that it was just going to be very exciting that my parents could walk into a bookstore anywhere in the US and buy a book that I had written.
"I didn’t know it was going to go beyond that!"
Go beyond that it did, far, far beyond it, becoming a star-studded movie with Meryl Streep as the formidable editor-in-chief of Runway magazine. So did Lauren approve of the film?
"I absolutely loved the film. I think they did just such a wonderful job of the movie.
"I wasn’t involved in an official creative capacity but I was on the set nearly every day and involved in a really fun, observer type of way and I feel so lucky because it could have gone in a different direction and I think they did a phenomenal job."
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