YOUR NEXT READ FROM THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR of ROMANTIC COMEDY PREP and AMERICAN WIFEMessy and delicious New York TimesSittenfeld is in a league of her own GuardianOne of my favourite authors KATE ATKINSON author of Death at the Sign of the RookAnything Sittenfeld writes well read PeopleShe understands women so well like having someone look straight into your soul Reader reviewRazorsharp 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 shes 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 hasnt seen since her divorce. In A for Alone a married artist embarks on a project intended to disprove the socalled Mike Pence Rule which suggests that women and men cant 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 CANT GET ENOUGH OF CURTIS SITTENFELDSmall windows into modern life and as such highly entertaining.