My Husband
Hardcover - 272 pages
In this suspenseful and darkly funny French bestseller, one woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband—but can their marriage survive her passionate love?
At forty years old, she has an enviable life: stunning looks, a beautiful house in the Parisian suburbs, two healthy children, and most importantly, an ideal husband. After fifteen years together, she is still besotted with him. But she’s never quite sure that her passion is reciprocated. After all, would a truly infatuated man ever let go of his wife's hand when they're sitting on the couch together?
Determined to keep their relationship perfect, she meticulously prepares for every encounter they have, always taking care to make her actions seem effortless. She watches him attentively, charting every mistake and punishing him accordingly to help him improve. And she tests him—setting traps to make sure that he still loves her just as much as he did when they first met.
Until one day she realizes she may have gone too far . . .
The winner of France’s First Novel Prize in 2021, My Husband is a sly, subversive drama about one woman's complicated interiority and her even more complicated marriage, crackling with tension and unease and told in an utterly original voice.
Translated from the French by Emma Ramadan
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Hardcover - 272 pages
In this suspenseful and darkly funny French bestseller, one woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband—but can their marriage survive her passionate love?
At forty years old, she has an enviable life: stunning looks, a beautiful house in the Parisian suburbs, two healthy children, and most importantly, an ideal husband. After fifteen years together, she is still besotted with him. But she’s never quite sure that her passion is reciprocated. After all, would a truly infatuated man ever let go of his wife's hand when they're sitting on the couch together?
Determined to keep their relationship perfect, she meticulously prepares for every encounter they have, always taking care to make her actions seem effortless. She watches him attentively, charting every mistake and punishing him accordingly to help him improve. And she tests him—setting traps to make sure that he still loves her just as much as he did when they first met.
Until one day she realizes she may have gone too far . . .
The winner of France’s First Novel Prize in 2021, My Husband is a sly, subversive drama about one woman's complicated interiority and her even more complicated marriage, crackling with tension and unease and told in an utterly original voice.
Translated from the French by Emma Ramadan
