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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…
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 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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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 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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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…
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…
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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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…