{"id":23340,"date":"2025-07-25T18:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23340\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T18:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:24:11","slug":"what-actually-happens-in-the-second-devil-wears-prada-book-were-so-glad-you-asked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23340\/","title":{"rendered":"What Actually Happens in the Second \u2018Devil Wears Prada\u2019 Book? We\u2019re So Glad You Asked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before we begin, a disclaimer: My tolerance for trashy literature is quite high. I love an airport novel\u2014the frothier the better\u2014and my preferred vacation reading<\/a> is the literary equivalent of Love Island. The point being: I am not a snob. I love a bad rom-com. I love anything a bit tacky and aughts-coded. A good montage scene set to Madonna, and I\u2019m sold. All of which is probably why The Devil Wears Prada holds a specific and sizeable place in my heart.<\/p>\n

When I started working at British Vogue, people would ask\u2014after giving my outfit a once over\u2014\u201cWhat\u2019s it like?\u201d which roughly translated to, \u201cHow Devil Wears Prada is it?\u201d While I\u2019m yet to spot a cerulean belt or a Harry Potter manuscript flying around the office (though there was a Manolo Blahnik gift bag kicking around the other day), I can\u2019t pretend the 2006 film didn\u2019t shape my career aspirations and hair color choices. And there have definitely been moments in my personal and professional life that have bordered on cosplay, e.g. the time I got hit by a car and went as black-eyed, red-haired, hobbling Emily for Halloween (sadly, no Herm\u00e8s scarves in sight).<\/p>\n

Despite cranking up KT Tunstall\u2019s \u201cSuddenly I See\u201d during moments of anguish, there\u2019s been a void in my life that only Andy, Miranda, and the gang could fill\u2014and so I decided it was time to plug that Prada-shaped hole with the original book\u2019s creatively named follow-up: Revenge Wears Prada.<\/p>\n

The novel picks up a decade after Andy dramatically quit Runway after one too many trips around Paris in a town car. She\u2019s now the editor of a glossy bridal magazine and is married to Max Harrison, a vaguely Succession-adjacent publishing heir with outdoorsy hobbies and a sensitive side (he doesn\u2019t drink). Within a few chapters, I was bored to tears of the placeholder hunk that is Max, though at least the God-awful Jarlsberg-loving boyfriend from the first film had disappeared to Boston, taking his port wine reductions and unsupportive attitude with him.<\/p>\n

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