Domestic Affairs: A Campaign Novel
Weinstein Books, May 2013
When twentysomething political fund-raiser Olivia Greenley gets tapped to work on the presidential campaign of Georgia governor Landon Taylor, it's her dream job. Her best friend in the world is the campaign manager, and Taylor is a decent, charismatic idealist, with a real chance to be a great leader. Sacrificing her sleep, comfort, friends, family, and income for a year to make the world a better place is the right call, but what happens when both Campaign Lesson #1, No Kissing the Boss, and Lesson #2, Loyalty Above All, go down in flames before the first primary?
Bridget Siegel, veteran of the John Edwards and Obama campaigns, vividly captures the idealism and chaos, as well as the emotional heat and corruption, of the candidate's bubble. What becomes of Olivia's best friends when she must keep from them the biggest secret of her life? Is the candidate a true romantic or a political hypocrite? How far can she go to justify her happiness? Told with savvy, humor, and delicious inside-the-Beltway detail, Domestic Affairs is a page-turning tale of love on the campaign trail -- and its consequences -- from a consummate Beltway insider.
paperback | ISBN: 9781602862005 | Publication Date: May 2013
Reviews:
"The Fifty Shades of Grey of political novels"
-- CNN Starting Point
"Bridget Siegel is a true political campaign insider and she has
seen it ALL! Her novel, Domestic Affairs, is a fun, provocative
read and offers a rare glimpse into what really goes on behind the
scenes of political campaigns -- the good, the bad, and everything
in between."
-- Terry McAuliffe, formerchair of the Democratic National
Committee
"Riveting."
-- Lucky
"A gossipy insider's view of a political campaign."
-- Publisher's Weekly
"Bridget Siegel has probably spent too much time in the company
of politicians, but her reward was to find enough material to
write about her own presidential candidate, an adulterous
southerner with major-league hair, impressive blue eyes, and
great-sounding empathic ideals -- in other words, someone who
couldn't possibly be based on a real person."
-- Jeffrey Frank, author of the Washington Trilogy: The
Columnist, Bad Publicity, and Trudy Hopedale
