The first affair

405 pages

English language

Published May 16, 2014

ISBN:
978-1-4104-6512-2
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OCLC Number:
858159596

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3 stars (1 review)

Jamie McAlister has resigned herself to the fact that in this job market, her painfully expensive degree might only get her a position at Starbucks, when she suddenly lands a prestigious internship at the White House. Although she doesn't hit it off with the other interns--lockjaws who come from so much money that ten weeks without a paycheck doesn't faze them--she is eager to work hard and make the best of the opportunity while it lasts. An unexpected encounter late one evening with the charismatic President Gregory Rutland seems like just a fleeting flirtation, but when he orchestrates clandestine meetings and late-night phone calls, their relationship quickly escalates. Jamie knows what she is doing is wrong: he s married, he has kids, he's the President. Yet each time she tries to extricate herself, Greg pulls her back in.

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3 stars

I didn't really know anything about this other than the title and that the authors had written the Nanny Diaries which I had enjoyed, so I was surprised to find out just how much this was based on the Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton scandal, just updated for the modern era. I liked it and I liked that I didn't know where the story was going or how it would end because when the Lewinsky/Clinton thing broke I was just young enough to know what was going on without being consumed by the media attention.

Subjects

  • Large type books
  • Adultery
  • Fiction