The creator of Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell, brings her one woman show to the West End. If you want to know what parts of the show actually happened and about the real “Mr. Big” this is one for you.

Fashioning Carrie Bradshaw (made famous by Sarah Jessica-Parker), Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha on herself and her “many many” girlfriends, Candace was as I expected! She danced around the stage (a bright pink apartment) in a pair of Manolo Blahnik’s with tales of her career, childhood, friends and romantic encounters. Answering the telephone with “good news only” set the tone for her infectious optimism.

She was, I suppose, playing a version of herself that SATC fans wanted to see. The show was a mixture of her telling stories and acting out phone calls and meetings repeating what the other person was saying, “so Miranda/Samantha/Char[lotte]… you’re about to…”. Bushnell is not as natural an actress as she is a writer. I thought her accomplished story telling shone more when she recalled episodes of her life, without acting a scene.

Littered with games of “real or not real” (she did date a politician, but he didn’t ask her to pee on him (a well-known SATC scene)) and “Lessons” (…be financially independent, girlfriends are your rock..) flashing up on a big screen, we heard the ups and downs of navigating life, love and work as a woman who began her big city career in the 1980s.