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Biographical note
Maud Ventura lives in Paris. She led the podcast division of one of France's major radio stations and speaks fluent English. My Husband, her first novel, was a bestseller in France and winner of the Prix du Premier Roman.
Emma Ramadan (translator) is the recipient of the PEN Translation Prize, the Albertine Prize, an NEA Fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholarship. She lives in Brooklyn.
An <b>unsettling novel</b> about the ultimate unknowability of your spouse and a sure-footed addition to a canon that might include <i>Jane Eyre</i> and <i>Gone Girl . . . </i><b>Gripping reading</b>
Sunday Times
An absolute banger! Paranoid, claustrophobic, and totally addictive, <i>My Husband </i>will give you whiplash.<b> It's my new obsession: from the very first page, I couldn't leave it alone</b>
- Alice Slater,
There’s simply no way of telling how far she’ll go, and her increasingly volatile unreliability as a narrator makes the story <b>all the more riveting</b>
- Observer,
This is not a conventional thriller as such, but there is <b>plenty of suspense</b> and the <b>stakes are high</b>. A bestseller and prize winner in France, this cool examination of the balance of power in a marriage comes over as the screwed-up offspring of Marguerite Duras’s <i>The Lover</i>. That there is a final twist is the only predictable aspect of a <b>skilfully manipulated psychological drama</b>. Emily (Brontë) in Paris
Times
My Husband is a <b>clever</b>, <b>unsettling </b>and, at times, <b>funny tale of unhinged marital devotion</b>
Guardian
<b>Irresistible and delightful</b>
- Amélie Nothomb,
<b>The exceptional <i>My Husband</i> has everything I look for in a novel: chic, beguiling and deeply unhinged</b>
- Juno Dawson,
<b>I haven't been hooked by a voice like this in a long time. A heady intricate terrifying read</b>
- Daisy Johnson,
In this <b>wry, psychologically complex </b>debut, a meticulously manicured wife is obsessed with her husband. For the past 13 years, she's made a science of meeting his needs, putting them before her own or even their children's. Her love is a stranglehold; something's gotta give. The winner of France's First Novel Prize, <b>this riveting emotional thriller requires serious willpower to not devour in a single sitting</b>
Oprah Daily
Shortlisted for four literary prizes, <b><i>My Husband</i> humorously deals with the complexity of love</b>. <b>A salient and funny novel about a marital face-to-face</b>, <i>My Husband </i>is one of the most demanded books of the <i>rentrée littéraire. </i>[...] What if you always loved your spouse as if it was the first day ? The wild idea of novelist Maud Ventura
Madame Figaro
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Maud Ventura lives in Paris. She led the podcast division of one of France's major radio stations and speaks fluent English. My Husband, her first novel, was a bestseller in France and winner of the Prix du Premier Roman.
Emma Ramadan (translator) is the recipient of the PEN Translation Prize, the Albertine Prize, an NEA Fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholarship. She lives in Brooklyn.