sweet valley confidential by francine pascal

Readers may be surprised to learn that Sweet Valley Confidential is the first Sweet Valley book Pascal has actually written cover to cover (though, she says with a laugh, 'I wrote every single one of those f-king plotlines'). There is also something called the Sweet Valley 'Bible'-a thick guide to all things Jessica and Elizabeth, down to the color of Jess' legwarmers to just how conniving she could be (the answer: 'very'). (One editor says the arrival of her book's manuscript caused a flurry of 'squealing women' in the office.) From her fifth-floor apartment in midtown Manhattan, she carefully pages through a stack of hand-typed manuscripts, and the book's original pitch letter, to Bantam Books, in 1982. Pascal may be three times her characters' age, but the beloved writer believes she’s got her finger on the pulse. But the gals have matured, or at least changed with the times: They now actually have sex and use Facebook. The same themes are there, too-friendship, tension, boys, sex. The girls still look identical, down to the parts in their shoulder-length blond hair. Now 27, the girls are estranged-Jessica is living with her fiancé in the impeccably glossy Sweet Valley, California, while Elizabeth is on her own in a shoebox-size Manhattan apartment, working as a writer. The once-inseparable sisters-mild-mannered Elizabeth, juxtaposed against the flirty, manipulative Jessica-are no longer students at Sweet Valley High, but grown up, and with adult problems like divorce, abusive husbands, and stolen lovers. Sweet Valley Confidential picks up a decade after Sweet Valley High left off.

Sweet valley confidential by francine pascal