Lullaby: A BBC2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
jan. 2018 · Faber & Faber
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**SOON TO BE A MAJOR HBO SHOW STARRING NICOLE KIDMAN AND MAYA ERSKINE**
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A RICHARD AND JUDY PICK
WINNER OF THE DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
'Creepy, shocking, compulsive' The Times, BOOKS OF THE YEAR
'Unnerving, addictive.' Grazia
'The smartest thriller you'll read this year.' Independent
The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.
When Myriam, a brilliant lawyer, decides to return to work, she and her husband look for a nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family's chic Paris apartment, stays late without complaint and hosts enviable birthday parties. But as the couple and their nanny become more and more dependent on each other, jealousy, resentment and suspicions increase, until Myriam and Paul's idyllic domesticity is shattered . . .
What readers are saying:
***** 'Haunting. . . I will be pressing it into the hands of anyone who passes me.'
***** 'Shocking, daring, and utterly compelling.'
***** 'It had me hooked right from the start.'
**PRE-ORDER WATCH US DANCE - THE SEDUCTIVE, VIBRANT NEW NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR**
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A RICHARD AND JUDY PICK
WINNER OF THE DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
'Creepy, shocking, compulsive' The Times, BOOKS OF THE YEAR
'Unnerving, addictive.' Grazia
'The smartest thriller you'll read this year.' Independent
The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.
When Myriam, a brilliant lawyer, decides to return to work, she and her husband look for a nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family's chic Paris apartment, stays late without complaint and hosts enviable birthday parties. But as the couple and their nanny become more and more dependent on each other, jealousy, resentment and suspicions increase, until Myriam and Paul's idyllic domesticity is shattered . . .
What readers are saying:
***** 'Haunting. . . I will be pressing it into the hands of anyone who passes me.'
***** 'Shocking, daring, and utterly compelling.'
***** 'It had me hooked right from the start.'
**PRE-ORDER WATCH US DANCE - THE SEDUCTIVE, VIBRANT NEW NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR**
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Om forfatteren
Leïla Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt. Her first novel, The Ogre's Garden - forthcoming from Faber & Faber in 2019 - won the Prix La Mamounia. Slimani is a journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights. She lives in Paris with her husband and two children.
Sam Taylor is the translator of HHhH by Laurent Binet and You Will Not Have my Hatred by Antoine Leiris.
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