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Georgina Cross is the author of Nanny Needed, a novel. The author of The Stepdaughter, The Missing Woman,

and Nanny Needed, Georgina worked as a journalist and then spent nine years in business development

for an aerospace and defense contractor before

joining the Huntsville-Madison County Chamber of Commerce as the workforce director. She lives in

Alabama with her husband and four sons. Welcome, Georgina. Thanks for coming on moms now.

Time to read books to discuss Nanny Needed. Thank you for having me. This is just, again, I said it earlier. It's really cool to actually see you face to face and talk to you. So thank you for having me. You're welcome. It's my pleasure. Yes. Okay, Nanny Needed. As I was just joking, I was like, is this my building on the cover? But it's this book about New York family and the girl who goes to work for the family on the

Upper West Side, though, I have to say I'm on the Upper East Side. You were just explaining that while you live in Alabama,

your sister had lived here for a year. So go back for the whole where this book came from and all of that.

Okay. I would love to know if there is a situation in your building where there is a nanny that has gotten up to the, you know, with the family and the antics, because I was at a book club meeting and this woman was insistent. She said, tell me who this is based on. And I was like, I don't, I mean, I came up with it in my head. It was inspired by other stuff I read about, but I don't

know of a family that this has really happened to. And if you know of a family, please tell me, but she was unconvinced. She really feels like there is someone out there. And I'm like, no, I made it up. But the chance, there could be a chance that there's a family out there. But yeah, my sister, she lived in New York City.

I don't know them.

They're not friends with me.

I'll tell you that much.

Okay.

So my sister was in the East Village for, gosh, 15 years maybe. And so because we had a free place to stay, we would fly to New York and sleep in her apartment. She had a two-bedroom with a hallway. You know, that was a really big deal to have an apartment with the hallway because she used to be like an tenement type of apartment. And we'd walk and

my parents would come visit and, you know, you're in New York City. It's so great to walk. And so

we would explore and end up in the Upper East Side, Upper West Side. And just from standing on the

sidewalks and looking up at the

penthouse buildings, that's really where the story percolated from. I thought, wouldn't that be

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