Rodham

A Novel

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Rodham

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

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WHAT IF HILLARY RODHAM HAD TURNED DOWN BILL CLINTON'S PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE?

‘Startlingly good. One of my favourite writers.’ Kate Atkinson

‘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.

The rest, as they say, isn’t history. 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.

Uncannily astute and witty in the telling, RODHAM is a brilliant reimagining – an unmissable literary landmark and truly a novel of our times.

Curtis SittenfeldCarrington MacDuffieTransworld Digital

Biographical Fiction

Fantasy

Fiction

Genre Fiction

Literary Fiction

Psychological

Women's Fiction

Biography

Witty

Thought-Provoking

Funny

Mind-bending

Biographical Fiction Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Women's Fiction Biography Witty Thought-Provoking Funny Mind-bending

Critic reviews

This addictive novel is the SLIDING DOORS of American politics. Gripping

A lot of fun. A wonderful, sad dream of what might have happened

An explosive new book

Sittenfeld's RODHAM offers the catharsis of uncomplicated regret

While telling a compelling story, RODHAM provides an insightful analysis of the function of sexim in our political discourse. Sittenfeld is at her wittiest when recreating the men who dominate American politics

A nauseating, moving, morally suggestive, technically brilliant book that made me think more than any in recent memory about the aims and limits of fiction

Hugely enjoyable

This isn't just fiction as fantasy, this is fiction as therapy. A serious work of literary fiction designed to rally the spirits of liberal readers

‘An ingenious yet plausible glimpse of an alternative reality, and so involving that it occasionally comes as a shock to realise that there is a different reality, and we are living in it’

‘By tilting history on its side, Sittenfeld makes Hillary seem a fresh character and remarkably sympathetic’

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Initially I thought what a strange idea to fictionalise an alternative narrative for real, living characters but this is very cleverly done. I loved this book. Hillary is likeable because she is so intelligently aware of how she is perceived as a disarmingly intelligent and honest. As in American Wife, the narrator is compassionately self-aware and compellingly reflective. Curtis Sittenfeld is a great writer whose creative imagination and no-nonsense style are hugely appealing.