Paperback: She has the keys to their apartment.
She knows everything.
She has embedded herself so deeply in their lives that it now seems impossible to remove her.
When Myriam decides to return to work as a lawyer after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their son and daughter. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family’s chic Paris apartment, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment, and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau.
Building tension with every page, Lullaby (2018) is a compulsive, riveting, bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity, motherhood, and madness - and the American debut of an immensely talented writer.
Lullaby - The Perfect Nanny (USA) - is the #1 international bestseller and winner of France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt, in 2016.
Lullaby is translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
Slimani's second novel, Adèle (about a young mother addicted to sex), will be out on 27 February 2019.
About the author: Leïla Slimani is a French writer and journalist of Moroccan ancestry. In 2016 she was awarded the Prix Goncourt for her novel Chanson douce.
Slimani was born in Rabat, Morocco and studied later political science and media studies in Paris. After that she temporarily considered a career as an actress and began to work as a journalist for the magazine Jeune Afrique. In 2014, she published her first novel Dans le jardin de l’ogre, which two years later was followed by the psychological thriller Chanson douce. The latter quickly turned into a bestseller with over 600 000 copies printed within a year even before the book was awarded the Prix Goncourt.
Rating: 5/5
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