#BlogTour: Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld @csittenfeld @TransworldBooks @RandomTTours #Rodham #CurtisSittenfeld #RandomThingsTours

Book Synopsis:

‘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.

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.

Rodham is available in ebook now and in hardback on the 9th July 2020. You can purchase or pre-order your copy using the link below.

My Review:

I absolutely loved American Wife by this author so I was really excited to read this book, especially as it once again offered an interesting insight into American politics. It’s an amazing, engaging read which I found hard to put down.

Firstly the author has obviously done her research and I found it fascinating to learn more about Hilary. We get taken through her early life and discover more about the women behind the politics in a very interesting way. The author has cleverly written the story so that it feels very real and it’s easy to believe at times that the alternative life she’s writing about could have happened.

Hilary is definitely an interesting woman who I struggled to like at times. She was quite annoying at times and seemed to want people to not like her. The author has managed to mix in some of Hilary’s known character flaws so I always felt like I was reading about a real person.

Overall I thought this was a well written, emotional story that I thoroughly enjoyed. It was perhaps a little detailed in places when it came to the political side of things but not enough to stop me enjoying the book. I liked the idea of the alternative life for her and found myself wishing that was the reality for her.

Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Transworld for my copy of this book via Netgalley.

About The Author:

Curtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, Sisterland, and Eligible, and the story collection You Think It, I’ll Say It, which have been translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post Magazine, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories, of which she was the 2020 guest editor.Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, and Vanity Fair, and on public radio’s This American Life.