There’s a part in Curtis Sittenfeld’s forthcoming novel when our heroine smooths ‘cheap lotion onto her body and expensive lotion onto her face’ and I read it thinking, it is so nice to be back among friends.
I’ve been friends with reading books by Curtis Sittenfeld since her debut Prep, which I read obsessively instead of talking to my grandparents during a visit home from university. One of my favourite family holiday memories is reading American Wife for four days straight – I had my own hotel room on that holiday, it was bliss, I just needed to be alone with my book. In 2017, when I was pregnant, I lost myself in Eligible and during Covid, Rodham sort of saved my business.