Leila Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt, which she won for The Perfect Nanny. 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 now lives in Paris with her French husband and their two
young children.
This is not your typical crime fiction novel written today. It is like a
Simenon or perhaps Ruth Rendell. Louise is hired by a Yuppie could with
two small children. Her devotion soon seems pathological to the reader,
but the couple sees only her outward self. The reader is in on just
how miserable a life she has. This is a slim, scary book. It almost
feels hot in your hand. You don't want to pick it up and you don't want
to put it down.
2 comments:
Oh, this one sounds intriguing, Patti. I am definitely interested.
This sounds like a very good book that is too scary for me. The only Ruth Rendell books that I can read easily are the Wexford series, although I have read some others. They were very uncomfortable reads, and probably not as scary as this one.
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