Adele
Published on 3. October 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-571-33196-3 (ISBN)
Description
From the bestselling author of Lullaby
'Riveting.' Evening Standard
'Explosive.' Mail on Sunday
'Thrilling.' Sunday Times
'A must-read.' Vogue
Her obsessions devour her. She is helpless to stop them...
Adele has a seemingly enviable life. She is a respected journalist, living in a flawless Paris apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of 'having it all', Adele is bored. She begins to orchestrate her life around one-night stands and extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until her compulsions threaten to consume her altogether.
'Riveting.' Evening Standard
'Explosive.' Mail on Sunday
'Thrilling.' Sunday Times
'A must-read.' Vogue
Her obsessions devour her. She is helpless to stop them...
Adele has a seemingly enviable life. She is a respected journalist, living in a flawless Paris apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of 'having it all', Adele is bored. She begins to orchestrate her life around one-night stands and extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until her compulsions threaten to consume her altogether.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 194 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
180 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-33196-3 (9780571331963)
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Leila Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby. 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 lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.