The devil wears Prada

By Lauren Weisberger

the novel revolves around Andrea Sachs, a Brown university graduate who leaves her home town to settle in the busy life of Manhattan. Andrea,a long time reader of the New Yorker who knows each article by heart, aspires to be one of the famous hotshot writers of the New Yorker. So she tries her luck but instead lands herself as the junior assistant in the plush offices of Runway.

She has never heard of the world's most fashionable magazine or its feared editor: Miranda Priestly.She is the devil boss and doesn't miss a chance to criticize her employees.

Punctuality,uniformity and fashion sense is what counts in her qualities of a perfect employee. Its quoted as "the job a million girls would die for". At first Andrea tries to make her hellish job into a bearable one but soon finds herself adopting to the changes. Spending 14 hours a day at Runway leaves her with a little time for herself and her her family and friends.

The job starts affecting her health and she soon finds herself very thin. Her best friend turns into an alcoholic and is arrested for road rash while her boyfriend dumps her because she is always working. Soon she realizes that the job isn't worth her hard work. So when she accompanies her devil boss, Miranda, to Milan for the fashion show she has had too much. Andrea insults her boss and kicks her job away and takes the first flight home.

I really like the way the book has been written. The Writer makes you laugh,cry and feel the way she feels. "Andrea Sachs's" character has been very well written.In the end,Andrea finds it difficult at first to cope with her changed life But then, life is never perfect. She experiences things she didn't enjoy last year like spending time with her family and friends because she didn't have time for it, a life without Runway, without the unimportant hassles of committing a fashion faux pas.Earning is not a strong point at first, but then she starts random articles which atleast allows her to live a hassle-free life.