{"product_id":"9781786586384","title":"Wifehouse : A captivating, sharply resonant novel about a mother who chooses to leave - Sonya Walger","description":"\u003cp\u003eWifehouse reads like a storm in a soundproof room. I absolutely loved it' Miranda Cowley Heller, International Bestselling author of THE PAPER PALACE'A magnificent, richly-textured novel. It thrums with energy' Kate Kemp, author of THE GRAPEVINE'Page by page, it closed around me like a vice' Camilla Barnes, author of THE USUAL DESIRE TO KILL\"Je suis femme maison.\"\"You are a wifehouse? Oh, a housewife. Je suis une femme au foyer.\"\"Wow, that actually sounds worse in French. Let's go with je suis m�re.\"He is drenched in youth, this young man, she thinks. He is soaked in all its possibilities. 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 . . . 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonya Walger","offers":[{"title":"320 pages \/ 23\/04\/2026 \/ Fiction: special features","offer_id":56970519445879,"sku":"9781786586384","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781786586384_7baa18a0-6300-43b7-ac7d-d0746df270db.jpg?v=1779381767","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781786586384","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}