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`Nanny Diaries' record entertaining social satire

The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus (St. Martin's Press, $24.95) Sorry, Madam, but your worst nightmare has arrived. It appears that the help has been taking notes, and good ones. The help is very sharp-eyed indeed.

Apparently it has been noticed that you neither cook nor eat, that you import toilet-bowl cleanser from Europe, that your idea of a permissible outing for your 4-year-old son is a trip to the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and that you have been known to sip Perrier while the little lad was desperately thirsty. How unspeakable of your nanny to have noticed.

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