Nanny Returns - Softcover

After living abroad for twelve years, Nan and her husband, HH, return to New York and its Upper East Side world of power and privilege. With a consulting business to get off the ground and a new fixer-upper to fix up, Nan is surprised to be thrown by her husband s sudden desire to start a family. In the midst of construction and marital chaos, sixteen-year-old Grayer X makes a drunken, late-night visit, having stumbled upon her old nanny-cam tape, wanting to know why she left.

In an attempt to assuage her guilt Nan tries to help Grayer and his younger brother, Stilton, through their parents brutal divorce, sucking her back into the ever-bizarre life of Mrs. X. Meanwhile she lands her first major client, the Trustees of an elite private school, the institutions that once picked up where the nannies left off, instilling discipline and boundaries on behalf of absentee parents. But as the Boards have donated their way to gaining control, the teachers have become the new hired help with all-too familiar consequences.

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 well-being. Set against the backdrop of the current Manhattan economy, Nanny Returns gives a first hand tour of what happens when a community that chose money over love finds themselves with neither.

Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin are the authors of The Nanny Diaries and Citizen Girl. They live and work
in New York City.