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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 s ...

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 alo