Carrie’s love letters book turned into the reel deal

IT WAS billed the chickflick of the year but ironically, Sex and the City sent thousands of women to the classical section of their local bookshop, seeking out a collection of historic letters that didn’t exist.

Such was the interest in lead character Carrie’s fictional book Love Letters from Great Men that Macmillan publishers decided that the public must get what the public want.

And so, a collection of letters from Byron, Beethoven, Henry VIII and Robert Browning was born — a collection that may very well find itself in the unlikeliest of homes.