For 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 Kate inadvertently reveals their secret when they are thirteen years old, their lives are set on diverging paths. Twenty years later Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children. Violet is single, and lives a much more flamboyant and eccentric existence. Then one day Violet ignites a media storm by predicting a major earthquake in the St Louis area where they live. As the day Violet has...
For 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 a...
On one of the most important days of her husband's presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led them to the White House, and faces contradictions years in the making. Weaving race, class, wealth and fate into a tapestry, this novel lays bare the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love.
On one of the most important days of her husband's presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led them to the White ...
Hannah is 14. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's life, her parents' marriage is crumbling. Over the next 15 years, as Hannah moves from Philadelphia to Boston to Albuquerque, she finds that the answers to love's most bewildering questions become more complicated.
Hannah is 14. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's life, her parents' marriage is crumbling. Over the next 15 ...
Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant 14-year-old when her father drops her off at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. As Lee soon learns, Ault is unlike anything she has previously experienced, a self-enclosed world populated by jaded teenagers whose expectations, values and social rituals are unfamiliar to her.
Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant 14-year-old when her father drops her off at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. As Lee soon learns, ...
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The book of the summer' The Times 'Sheer joy ... Giddy and glam and a hearty update of Pride and Prejudice' Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The book of the summer' The Times 'Sheer joy ... Giddy and glam and a hearty update of Pride an...
A dazzling, smart and razor-sharp story collection by Curtis Sittenfeld, Sunday Times bestselling author of Eligible and American Wife. The theme that unites these stories is how even the cleverest people tend to misread others, and how much we all deceive ourselves.
Sharp and tender, funny and wise, they show Sittenfeld’s knack for creating real, believable characters that spring off the page, while also skewering contemporary mores with brilliant dry wit.
DO-OVER, ONE OF THE STORIES IN THIS COLLECTION, WAS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SUNDAY TIMES EFG SHORT STORY AWARD.
A dazzling, smart and razor-sharp story collection by Curtis Sittenfeld, Sunday Times bestselling author of Eligible and American Wife. The theme ...
