‘Messy and delicious’ New York Times
‘Sittenfeld is in a league of her own’ Guardian
‘One of my favourite authors’ KATE ATKINSON, author of Death at the Sign of the Rook
‘Anything Sittenfeld writes, we’ll read’ People
‘She understands women so well; like having someone look straight into your soul’ Reader review*****
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Razor-sharp, glittering tales exploring marriage, fame and female friendship, from the Sunday Times bestselling author.

In this compulsive collection of twelve witty stories, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels, as she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends.

In ‘The Patron Saints of Middle Age,’ a woman visits two friends she hasn’t seen since her divorce. In ‘A for Alone,’ a married artist embarks on a project intended to disprove the so-called Mike Pence Rule, which suggests that women and men can’t spend time alone together without lusting after each other. And in ‘Lost but Not Forgotten,’ Sittenfeld gives readers of her novel Prep a new window into the world of her beloved character Lee Fiora, decades later, when Lee attends an awkward school reunion.

Witty, confronting and full of tenderness, Sittenfeld peels back layer after layer of our inner lives, keeping us riveted to the page with her utterly distinctive voice.

READERS CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF CURTIS SITTENFELD:

‘Small windows into modern life and as such highly entertaining. Curtis, you’re a star!’ *****
‘Sittenfeld understands women so well, it’s like having someone look straight into your soul’*****
‘Devoured! You’ll recognise yourself and others in these pages’ *****
‘No-one else writes with such precision and amusement’ Red Magazine

‘Sittenfeld is in a league of her own’ Guardian

‘One of my favourite authors’ KATE ATKINSON

‘Anything Sittenfeld writes, we’ll read’ People

‘No-one else writes with such precision and amusement’ Red Magazine
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Razor-sharp, glittering tales exploring marriage, fame and female friendship, from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Romantic Comedy and American Wife.

In this compulsive collection of twelve witty stories, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels, as she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends.

In ‘The Patron Saints of Middle Age,’ a woman visits two friends she hasn’t seen since her divorce. In ‘A for Alone,’ a married artist embarks on a project intended to disprove the so-called Mike Pence Rule, which suggests that women and men can’t spend time alone together without lusting after each other. And in ‘Lost but Not Forgotten,’ Sittenfeld gives readers of her novel Prep a new window into the world of her beloved character Lee Fiora, decades later, when Lee attends an awkward school reunion.

Witty, confronting and full of tenderness, Sittenfeld peels back layer after layer of our inner lives, keeping us riveted to the page with her utterly distinctive voice.

READERS CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF CURTIS SITTENFELD:

‘Small windows into modern life and as such highly entertaining. Curtis, you’re a star!’ *****

‘Sittenfeld understands women so well, it’s like having someone look straight into your soul’*****

‘Devoured! You’ll recognise yourself and others in these pages’ *****

‘A hilarious, sweet, smart read that you’re going to love!‘ REESE WITHERSPOON
‘A rollercoaster of modern love and dating’ STYLIST
‘Biting, pacy, great fun’ SUNDAY TIMES

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, American Wife and Prep.
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Life is (not)* a Romantic Comedy…

After a series of heartbreaks, Sally Milz – successful script writer for a legendary late-night TV comedy show – has long abandoned the search for love.

But when her friend and fellow writer begins to date a glamorous actress, he joins the growing club of interesting but average-looking men who get romantically involved with accomplished, beautiful women.

Sally channels her annoyance into a sketch, poking fun at this ‘social rule’. The reverse never happens for a woman.

Then Sally meets Noah, a pop idol with a reputation for dating models. But this isn’t a romantic comedy – it’s real life.

Would someone like him ever date someone like her?

Skewering all our certainties about why we fall in love, ROMANTIC COMEDY is a witty and probing tale of how the heart will follow itself, no matter what anyone says. It is Curtis Sittenfeld at her most sharp, daring and compassionate best.
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WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:

‘This book is heavenly. i just had a hilariously enjoyable masterclass in writing’ *****
‘Hilarious and screwball and warm’ *****
‘A book that helps transport you away’ *****
‘She makes the characters much more real than ordinary romcoms*****

Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, April 2023
Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick, April 2023

‘A hilarious, sweet, smart read that you’re going to love!’ REESE WITHERSPOON

‘A rollercoaster of modern love and dating‘ STYLIST

‘One of my all-time favourite authors. A brilliantly written, funny page-turner, I want to read it all again’ PANDORA SYKES

‘I am obsessed. A warm, wise, magnanimous and extremely funny novel. ROMANTIC COMEDY should be prescribed to anyone needing their mood lifted’ ELIZABETH DAY

A TV script writer thinks she’s over romance, until an unlikely love interest upends all her assumptions: 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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Life is (not)* a Romantic Comedy…

With a series of heartbreaks under her belt, Sally Milz – successful script writer for a legendary late-night TV comedy show – has long abandoned the search for love.

But when her friend and fellow writer begins to date a glamorous actress, he joins the growing club of interesting but average-looking men who get romantically involved with accomplished, beautiful women. Sally channels her annoyance into a sketch, poking fun at this ‘social rule’. The reverse never happens for a woman.

Then Sally meets Noah, a pop idol with a reputation for dating models. But this isn’t a romantic comedy – it’s real life. Would someone like him ever date someone like her?

Skewering all our certainties about why we fall in love, ROMANTIC COMEDY is a witty and probing tale of how the heart will follow itself, no matter what anyone says. It is Curtis Sittenfeld at her most sharp, daring and compassionate best.

‘Curtis Sittenfeld is in a league of her own’ GUARDIAN
‘Anyone who reads Sittenfeld will read anything she ever writes’ THE TIMES

‘Startlingly good. One of my favourite writers.’ KATE ATKINSON
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‘Awfully opinionated for a girl’ is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb.

Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that’s the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college, and her star rises. At Yale Law School, she continues to be a leader- and catches the eye of driven, handsome and charismatic Bill. But when he asks her to marry him, Hillary gives him a firm No.

How might things have turned out for them, for America, for the world itself, if Hillary Rodham had really turned down Bill Clinton?

With her sharp but always compassionate eye, Sittenfeld explores the loneliness, moral ambivalence and iron determination that characterise the quest for high office, as well as the painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world ruled by men.
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‘A lot of fun. A wonderful sad dream of what might have happened’ GUARDIAN

‘It ends up being a love letter to a type: the female intellectual, who is given none of the licence of her less talented male peers. At the end, i found myself saying Oh My God’ OBSERVER

‘An explosive new book’ GRAZIA

‘Getting inside a living person’s head sounds like a colossally bad idea, but Sittenfeld makes it convincing here, just as she did with a character based on First Lady Laura Bush in her 2008 novel, AMERICAN WIFE’ BBC CULTURE

‘An ingenious yet plausible glimpse of an alternative reality’ THE SPECTATOR

‘Sittenfeld’s RODHAM offers the cartharsis of uncomplicated regret’ NEW YORKER

‘A nauseating, moving, morally suggestive, technically brilliant book that made me think more than any in recent memory’ NPR

‘Deviously clever . . . Sittenfeld’s Hillary is both a player in the Game of Thrones and a romance novel heroine. She’s a brilliant badass who has found her voice and knows how to use it. She’s whoever she wants to be’ O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

‘Of all the SLIDING DOORS fantasies offered by the last 40 years of American office, this may be the most mouth-watering. THE BIG ISSUE

‘Fascinating. Rich-with-possibilities concept’ SAINSBURY’S MAGAZINE

‘This is Pride and Prejudice 2.0 and I must confess, I liked it more than the original’ STYLIST

‘Bold and brilliant’ GLAMOUR

‘Sheer joy? Giddy and glam and a hearty update of Pride and Prejudice‘ JESSIE BURTON, author of The Miniaturist

Liz and Jane Bennet are good daughters. They’ve come home to suburban Cincinnati to get their mother to stop feeding their father steak as he recovers from heart surgery, to tidy up the crumbling Tudor-style family home, and to wrench their three sisters from their various states of arrested development.

Once they are under the same roof, old patterns return fast. Soon they are being berated for their single status – and for two successful women in their late thirties, it really is too much to bear. That is, until the Lucas family’s BBQ throws them in the way of some eligible single men . . .

In this dazzling, heart-warming read, the much-loved classic Pride and Prejudice is catapulted into our modern world, singing out with hilarity and truth.
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Praise for ELIGIBLE:

‘If there exists a more perfect pairing than Curtis Sittenfeld and Jane Austen, we dare you to find it’Elle

‘These days, if Curtis Sittenfeld writes it, I read it’ Judy Blume

‘Eligible has all the charm, wit and romance of Pride & Prejudice?an absolute delight’ Red

‘Dazzling’Woman and Home

‘Such a feast of a book’ Nigella Lawson

‘Not since “Clueless,” has Austen been so delightedly interpreted’ New York Times