Clinton memoirs expected to be a big seller

Hilary Clinton's publishers are expecting record sales for her memoirs and have ordered a first printing of one million copies, according to her lawyer.

The 576-page account of her years in the White House, for which she received a £5m (€7.25m) advance, will be called Living History and is scheduled for release on June 9.

An audio version, read by New York Senator Clinton, will be released the same day.

“Only a small handful of books have a one million-copy first printing and I cannot think of another nonfiction book in recent history,” Robert Barnett, her lawyer, told Associated Press.

Foreign rights have already been sold in 16 countries, he said.

The book, which took two years to write, will sell for £20 (€29) and will be billed as “a complete and candid” account of her years in the White House from the healthcare debate to impeachment to the launching of her own political campaign in 2000.