Candace Bushnell, originator of Sex and the City, has signed a deal with HarperCollins children’s division to write a young adult novel about Carrie Bradshaw’s high-school years, reports the Observer.

The book, which will be called The Carrie Diaries, will be set partly in New York and partly in a suburb. Donna Bray, one of the publishers, said “I think she’ll come here the way Candace did, with her friends, to hang out in the city on the weekend, and have a lot of social interaction there, and then eventually she’ll come to college here, as Candace did.”

So just how sexy will it be?

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