A wry, razor-sharp and moving collection of stories exploring marriage and female friendship - including a story that revisits the main character from her iconic novel, Prep - from the New York Times bestselling author of Romantic Comedy and American Wife. In ''Lost But Not Forgotten,'' Sittenfeld gives readers of her novel Prep a chance to see how our beloved character Lee Fiora is doing twenty years later, when she returns for a school reunion and grapples with memories of an incident that happened while she was a student. In ''Pretzels are for Biting,'' a woman looks up two best friends that she moved away from after her divorce. In ''Creative Differences,'' a photographer from the mid-west quickly realizes that the ''documentary'' she stars in is actually a commercial for a multi-national corporation. And in ''Atomic Marriage,'' a Hollywood producer falls for a bestselling Christian self-help author while working on their film adaptation. In these twelve dazzling stories, Sittenfeld skewers our assumptions about fame, marriage and prejudice. Laying bare on the page what we''re all thinking but hesitate to say, she explores women''s lives at the intersection of ambition, intimacy, and the entangled pursuit of a fulfilling life.

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Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling Rodham. Other novels include American Wife and Prep, both bestsellers and longlisted for the Orange Prize, The Man of My Dreams, Sisterland, Eligible, and the acclaimed short story collections You Think It, I'll Say It and Help Yourself. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Oprah Magazine and the New York Times magazine. Sittenfeld was also the guest editor for the 2020 Best American Short Stories anthology. She lives with her family in the American Midwest. Follow her on Twitter @CSittenfeld

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**YOUR NEXT READ FROM THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR of ROMANTIC COMEDY, PREP and *AMERICAN WIFE

'Messy and delicious'** New York Times Editor's Choice
**'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