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...manners set on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The book is in its sixth printing and in ninth place on the New York Times fiction best-seller list. The film rights have been sold to Miramax for a reported $500,000. And the first-time authors, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, two peppy twentysomething graduates of New York University, have been all over the morning television shows...
While many nannies are silenced by iffy immigration status or poor English, Kraus and McLaughlin were uniquely placed to expose the nanny-to-the-rich biz. Kraus was raised on the Upper East Side, McLaughlin in upstate New York. They have an easy familiarity with the trappings--and traps--of wealth. But the book would not be making nearly the splash it is if the authors' former employers did not include about 30 actual New York City families. The verisimilitude has made for a cool reaction from some quarters and sniffs of a boycott from Park Avenue. Several publishing houses...
...that they didn't start the book until after they had stopped nannying. Nor did they set out to write a sizzling roman a clef; they were shooting more for Chekhov. "We noticed that in a lot of books in N.Y.U.'s Great Books Program, nannies were mentioned," says McLaughlin. "They were always a peripheral but pivotal figure...
...Lisa McLaughlin...
...Lisa McLaughlin...