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  • Published: 31 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446428627
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496
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Sammy's Hill




'Sammy's Hill is full of sly plot twists and big laughs, and every word rings true.' Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons

Meet Samantha Joyce. Bright, articulate and hard-working, Sammy is a political aide to die for. Seventy-hour working weeks? No problem. Conniving hacks? Handled. The very model of efficiency, Sammy takes the cut-throat world of Washington in her stride.

But lurking beneath this highly-professional veneer is another Sammy. A caffeine and cosmopolitan fuelled Sammy who's prone to flights of highly-imaginative fancy. A Sammy who's not above begging her Japanese Fighting Fish not to commit hara kiri. A Sammy who's just met Aaron Driver, a speechwriter who has one significant flaw: he works for her boss's biggest rival.

None of this is anything to worry about. Ordinarily. But when you're trying to run a national political campaign whilst being beleaguered by scheming journos and treacherous colleagues, and starting what seems to be a very exciting relationship, surely something's got to give?

  • Published: 31 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446428627
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496
Categories:

About the author

Kristin Gore

Kristin Gore, middle daughter of Al and Tipper Gore, is a comedy writer whose credits include Futurama - the new Matt Groening show after The Simpsons- and Saturday Night Live.

Praise for Sammy's Hill

'Al and Tipper's daughter is a well-established comedy writer and this, her debut novel is as sparky and well-paced as it is undeniably informed... an unexpectedly individual and authentic comic voice. '

The Observer

'Sammy's Washington [is] an electric town full of Machiavellian schemers, principled idealists, backstabbing diplomats, determined romantics, and one intuitive telemarketer. Gore is a child of the Hill, and she knows her town; the result of her light and juicy tale is, for better or worse, an absurd and convincing rendering of everyday life in the political jungle.'

O, the Oprah Magazine

'Sammy's Hill is a laugh-out-loud literary debut, certain to draw comparisons to Bridget Jones's Diary.'

Newsweek

'It shouldn't come as a great surprise that the first novel by Kristin Gore, daughter of Al Gore, is laugh-out-loud funny.'

San Francisco Chronicle
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