30 APRIL 2003
The highly-anticipated autobiography by US senator Hillary Clinton, detailing her controversial years in the White House, is set for a June 9 release. And publishing house Simon and Schuster reckons the 576-page tome, Living History, will be one of the most-read books of the year.

One million copies of the former First Lady's memoirs will hit the shelves, and an audio version of the book, narrated by Senator Clinton herself, will be released on the same day. "I cannot think of another nonfiction book in recent history that has had that large a first printing," said her spokesperson.

Living History, for which Mrs Clinton receive a reported $8-million advance, promises a "complete and candid" look at the New York politician's life during everything from the impeachment campaign against her husband Bill Clinton to her own decision to enter politics in 2000.

"There was so much I wanted to say and my publisher kept saying: 'You can't say that much, you have to fit it into a book, not into a multi-volume history'," she says. "I tried to express my feelings about everything that happened during those eight years."