From the bestselling author of Lullaby, the prizewinning debut novel about all our attempts to discover who we are - deep down - and what we actually want.

Informationen zum Autor Leïla Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby . A journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children. Klappentext The author of "Lullaby" explores the life of a bored journalist with the ostensibly perfect marriage, secretly consumed by an insatiable sexual appetite that sees her shape her life around affairs and one-night stands. Told with powerful precision and clarity. Zusammenfassung From the bestselling author of Lullaby 'Riveting.' Evening Standard 'Explosive.' Mail on Sunday 'Thrilling.' Sunday Times 'A must-read.' Vogue Her obsessions devour her. She is helpless to stop them ... Adèle has a seemingly enviable life. She is a respected journalist, living in a flawless Paris apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of 'having it all', Adèle is bored. She begins to orchestrate her life around one-night stands and extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until her compulsions threaten to consume her altogether.

Autorentext
Leïla Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby*.* A journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.

Klappentext

The author of "Lullaby" explores the life of a bored journalist with the ostensibly perfect marriage, secretly consumed by an insatiable sexual appetite that sees her shape her life around affairs and one-night stands. Told with powerful precision and clarity.

Zusammenfassung
From the bestselling author of Lullaby'Riveting.' Evening Standard'Explosive.' Mail on Sunday'Thrilling.' Sunday Times'A must-read.' VogueHer obsessions devour her.