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Curtis Sittenfeld
The major new novel from the global bestselling author of Rodham and American wife - a subversive and tender love story with a twist
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For sisters Liz and Jane, coming home to suburban Cincinnati means being paraded at the Lucas family’s BBQ, where burgers are served alongside the eligible men. But it’s difficult to…
A TV script writer thinks she's done with romance, until an unlikely love interest upends all her assumptions- a humorous, sharp and tender novel from the bestselling author of Eligible…
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What if Hillary hadn't married Bill? Rodham is the latest addictive Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of American Wife
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This is a stunning novel in the great tradition of American coming-of-age novels from Catcher in the Rye to The Secret History.
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A novel in which the unexpected becomes inevitable, and the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love are laid bare.
A dazzling, smart and razor-sharp story collection by Curtis Sittenfeld, Sunday Times bestselling author of Eligible and American Wife.
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Identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a hidden gift. But after…
And if you move to another state for a guy who might not love you back, are you being plucky – or just pathetic?
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WHAT IF HILLARY RODHAM HAD TURNED DOWN BILL CLINTON’S PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE? ‘Awfully opinionated for a girl’ is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb.
Originally published: New York: Random House, 2008.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * A comedy writer thinks she's sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions-a…
A modern retelling of Pride and prejudice –Cover.
Following her acclaimed debut novel Prep, Sittenfeld has written a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman’s fantasies of family and love with the challenges…
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Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Prep, returns with a mesmerizing novel of family and identity, loyalty and deception, and the delicate line between truth…
A perceptive, achingly funny first novel featuring a middle-class Midwestern teenager trying to fit in at an elite East Coast boarding school, Prep is also a brilliant dissection of class…
A humorous, subversive and tender-hearted novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of Rodham, American Wife and Prep.
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Sittenfeld’s wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, Help Yourself, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our assumptions about class and race, envy and disappointment, gender dynamics and celebrity.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of American Wife and Eligible … He proposed. She said no. And it changed her life forever.
A deviously clever what if…
A new novel from New York Times bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld.
[In the author’s first collection of short fiction, she] pinpoints the questionable decisions, missed connections, and sometimes extraordinary coincidences that make up a life. Indeed, she writes what we’re all…
"A sketch writer for a late-night comedy show, Sally Milz pokes fun at the phenomenon of talented but average men who've gotten romantically involved with beautiful women and how the…
Genevieve Novak
I exist on validation from emotionally unavailable men, biscuits, and cheap wine, and it’s easier to get off with Max than a Tiny Teddy.
Penny can’t help but compare herself…
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You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld: Conversation Starters
You Think It, I’ll Say It, by Curtis Sittenfeld’s latest book, is a collection of fictional short stories that…
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Meghan Daum
A New York Times notable book, The Quality of Life Report is the critically acclaimed first novel by Meghan Daum, New York Times best-selling author and winner of the PEN…
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Curtis Sittenfeld,Heidi Pitlor
New York Times best-selling author Curtis Sittenfeld selects the twenty best short stories of the year.
Essie Chambers
A debut novel of first friendships, family secrets and finding the courage to let go, told in a voice full of humour, irreverence and sass
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What if the price of moving forward is losing the only family you've ever known?
To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time, recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best…
