Sarah Jessica Parker turns her hand to editing and publishing for Hogarth

If Parker printed an inventory of her wardrobe and bound it in her favourite colour it would be a bestseller.

SARAH JESSICA PARKER has a voice made for libraries, which is convenient because we are in one — specifically, the Amagansett Free Library on Long Island, a location Parker chose because she has always loved libraries and because it’s close to the beach house she owns with actor Matthew Broderick, to whom she has been married since 1997.

It’s late summer. She is wearing a seasonable, unfashionable tan under a white cotton dress with high espadrilles; and she has brought her glasses, her Blackberry, her jumper in case of air conditioning and a 350-page manuscript.