Wifehouse : A captivating, sharply resonant novel about a mother who chooses to leave

A captivating, pin-sharp novel of motherhood and desire, for readers of Miranda July

<p>'<b><i>Wifehouse </i></b><b>reads like a storm in a soundproof room. I absolutely loved it</b>' Miranda Cowley Heller, International Bestselling author of THE PAPER PALACE<br><br>'<b>A magnificent, richly-textured novel.</b> <b>It thrums with energy</b>' Kate Kemp, author of THE GRAPEVINE<br><br><b>'Page by page, it closed around me like a vice' </b>Camilla Barnes, author of THE USUAL DESIRE TO KILL<br><br>"<i>Je suis femme maison.</i>"<br>"You are a wifehouse? Oh, a housewife. <i>Je suis une femme au foyer.</i>"<br>"Wow, that actually sounds worse in French. Let's go with <i>je suis mère</i>."<br><i>He is drenched in youth, this young man,</i> she thinks. <i>He is soaked in all its possibilities.</i><br><br>Following years of a life lived as a wife and mother, Annie is gifted French lessons with twenty-six-year-old local French tutor, Thierry. As time passes and the lessons progress, she finds herself unexpectedly vulnerable to the charms of a man closer in age to her teenage daughter than to her own. A new life for Annie emerges, one she could never have foreseen . . .<br><br><b>Told over the course of one year through the shifting perspectives of wife, husband, lover, best friend and children, Walger paints a contradictory, nuanced portrait of a woman who walks away from every role that tradition and society have expected of her.</b></p>