As he lay in a coma, neurosurgeon Eben Alexander explains that he "journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence [where] he met and spoke with the Divine source of the universe itself"--P. [4] of cover.
In between looking after four-year-old Grayer and running a thousand errands for Mrs X, his rich, uptight Manhattanite mother, Nan is trying to have a life. There's college, shopping, her friends, her cat George. And the gorgeous Harvard boy from the sixth floor. But the X family's dramas keep intruding and, as divorce looms, Nan realises how attached she's become to the X's underloved son - and how nannying has become more than a job...Funny, touching and true-to-life, The Nanny Diaries is a modern-day Mary Poppins story - with attitude.