Thus, this brings her back in with the X's, who have not changed in the past twelve years. Still feeling guilty for how she left when Grayer was four, she decides to help him any way she can to atone for what she did. There, a sixteen-year-old Grayer turns up on her doorstep, drunk. Now married to Harvard Hottie, they move back to New York after spending six years traveling the globe through his UN program. In the sequel, Nanny Returns twelve years have passed since the conclusion of the first book. While working for the X's, Nanny meets and falls in love with a boy who lives in the same building as the X's, someone she nicknamed "Harvard Hottie", as that is where he went to school. In a rage, Nanny records herself on the "Nann圜am", accusing the X's of being bad parents and begging them to love their son. The X's force Nanny to leave without letting her say goodbye to Grayer, something that haunts her. X fires her after the interaction between Nanny and Grayer, jealous that her son sees Nanny as a mother over her. Originally in college when the first book began, Nanny Schuester was the primary nanny to Grayer X, and eventually began to love him as a son. One night, a drunken, 16-year-old Grayer shows up at their door, demanding to know why Nan abandoned him years earlier, and thrusting the couple back into Mrs X's life. In 2010 Kraus and McLaughlin released a sequel called Nanny Returns, in which Nan and Ryan (aka Harvard Hottie) are married, and after having lived abroad for twelve years, they have returned to New York, where they move into a fixer-upper, and Nan hopes to start a business. The novel was also released as an audiobook, read by actress Julia Roberts. X, on other building residents.Ī film adaptation starring Scarlett Johansson, Paul Giamatti, and Laura Linney was released in the United States on August 24, 2007. As a child, Kraus lived at 1000 Park Avenue, and claims she modeled some of the characters, particularly Mrs. Both had worked as nannies for about 30 different wealthy families on the Upper East Side, where the book is set. The writers were students at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study when they wrote the book. 4.2 Ryan Hutchinson aka "Harvard Hottie".