Publisher's Note

More than four million readers fell
in love with Nan, the smart, spirited,
and sympathetic heroine of the
#1 New York Times bestseller
The Nanny Diaries.

Now she's back. After living abroad for twelve years, she and her husband, Ryan, aka H.H., have returned to New York to make a life for themselves. In the midst of getting her new business off the ground and fixing up their fixer-upper, Ryan announces his sudden desire to start a family. His timing simply couldn't be worse.

To compound the mounting construction and marital chaos, her former charge, Grayer X, now sixteen years old, makes a drunken, late-night visit, wanting to know why she abandoned him all those years ago. But how can she explain to Grayer what she still hasn't come to terms with herself? In an attempt to assuage her guilt, yet against every instinct, Nan tries to help Grayer and his younger brother, Stilton, through their parents' brutal divorce, drawing her back into the ever-bizarre life of Mrs. X and her Upper East Side enclave of power and privilege.

After putting miles and years between herself and this world, Nan finds she's once again on the front line of the battle with the couture-clad elite for their children's wellbeing.

With its whip-smart dialogue and keen observations of modern life, Nanny Returns gives a firsthand tour of what happens when a community that chose money over love finds itself with neither.

The Nanny Diaries was made into a major motion picture.
A sequel to the best-selling

Industry reviews

"[I]n NANNY RETURNS...the authors...are back to what they do best: skewering the manners and mores of those with more money than God....Anyone who has read THE NANNY DIARIES will recognize the sequel as much the same in tone and structure. Happily, the detailed observation in NANNY RETURNS feels just as up-to-the-minute....In this outing, though, it's apparent that Ms. McLaughlin and Ms. Kraus have thought harder about their material; the result is a novel that is more resonant and less glib than its predecessor."
 (01/06/2010)

"Where the authors excel, as in the first book, is in writing about children and the way they interact with adults. You can feel the kids' desperation when they are trying to get a parent's attention and the comfort they find in Nanny's care."
 (12/15/2009)