The Devil Wears Prada

It`s a killer title: The Devil Wears Prada. And it`s killer material: author Lauren Weisberger did a stint as assistant to Anna Wintour, the all-powerful editor of Vogue magazine. Now she`s written a book, and this is its theme: narrator Andrea Sachs goes to work for Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful editor of Runway magazine. It turns out Miranda is quite the bossyboots. That`s pretty much the extent of the novel, but it`s plenty. Miranda`s behaviour is so insanely over-the-top that it`s a gas to see what she`ll do next, and to try to guess which incidents were culled from the real-life antics of the woman who`s been called Anna "Nuclear" Wintour. For instance, when Miranda goes to Paris for the collections, Andrea receives a call back at the New York office (where, incidentally, she`s not allowed to leave her desk to eat or go to the bathroom, lest her boss should call). Miranda bellows over the line: "I am standing in the pouring rain on the rue de Rivoli and my driver has vanished. Vanished! Find him immediately!"