Sorry to have to disappoint people here but that book that Carrie reads from in the Sex and the City movie, “Love Letters From Great Men” does not in fact exist. Despite there being hundreds upon hundreds of people asking booksellers for it, no, there really is no book called “Love Letters From Great Men”.

Well, yet that is. The story has been all over the place in the past few days.

A consumer alert for the millions who have seen the feature film version of “Sex and the City”: There is no such book as “Love Letters From Great Men,” from which Carrie Bradshaw reads while in bed with her beloved Mr. Big.

Well, that’s from AP so I guess we have to take it as being true. Certainly, when the Christian Science Monitor (I find the philosophic ideas there a tad odd, I have to admit, but the newspaper is certainly first class) says them same I’m inclined to believe it.

They called the show “Sex and the City” but as those of us who used to watch it know, far more often it was about love – or the search for a close facsimile, anyway. So there’s nothing surprising about the fact that in the movie version we see Carrie sitting in bed reading a book called “Love Letters From Great Men” (and pondering tender words from lovers as diverse as Beethoven and Napoleon.)

What is kind of funny, however, is last week’s Associated Press story on the hundreds of queries retailers have received from readers looking for that book. Unfortunately, it doesn’t exist.

The news has even reached as far as Australia:

Fans of the new ‘Sex and the City’ movie have been flooding bookstores and online retailers in an attempt to track down the book ‘Love Letters From Great Men’ that Carrie Bradshaw is seen reading - the only problem is, it doesn’t exist.

The thing is, this is true now, yes. But I don’t think that this book not existing is going to last for very long. For some bright spark is bound to write one and get it out into hte market…..if hundreds or thousands of people are willing to buy something with that title, wouldn’t it be a sensible idea?

In fact, I have to admit that it sounds so sensible that I’m likely to start writing it tomorrow.