Maud Ventura

Emma Ramadan

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An unsettling novel about the ultimate unknowability of your spouse and a sure-footed addition to a canon that might include Jane Eyre and Gone Girl . . . Gripping reading

An absolute banger! Paranoid, claustrophobic, and totally addictive, My Husband will give you whiplash. It's my new obsession: from the very first page, I couldn't leave it alone

There&rsquo;s simply no way of telling how far she&rsquo;ll go, and her increasingly volatile unreliability as a narrator makes the story all the more riveting

This is not a conventional thriller as such, but there is plenty of suspense and the stakes are high. A bestseller and prize winner in France, this cool examination of the balance of power in a marriage comes over as the screwed-up offspring of Marguerite Duras&rsquo;s The Lover. That there is a final twist is the only predictable aspect of a skilfully manipulated psychological drama. Emily (Brontë) in Paris

My Husband is a clever, unsettling and, at times, funny tale of unhinged marital devotion

The exceptional My Husband has everything I look for in a novel: chic, beguiling and deeply unhinged

I haven't been hooked by a voice like this in a long time. A heady intricate terrifying read

In this wry, psychologically complex debut, a meticulously manicured wife is obsessed with her husband. For the past 13 years, she's made a science of meeting his needs, putting them before her own or even their children's. Her love is a stranglehold; something's gotta give. The winner of France's First Novel Prize, this riveting emotional thriller requires serious willpower to not devour in a single sitting

Shortlisted for four literary prizes, My Husband humorously deals with the complexity of love. A salient and funny novel about a marital face-to-face, My Husband is one of the most demanded books of the rentrée littéraire. [...] What if you always loved your spouse as if it was the first day ? The wild idea of novelist Maud Ventura

Fierce, funny and original, My Husband is a novel that should mark the rentrée littéraire

As funny as it is fierce, My Husband portrays a terrible observation about the reality of the contemporary couple. An outstanding novel! A clinical tone, a sharpened pen, and a tasty second degree. Throughout this book, Maud Ventura builds intense suspense, spreading tension and growing unease with art

My Husband, Maud Ventura's debut novel, possesses a dark, clinical and raspy humour. With a very well-done final twist, as unpredictable as it is Machiavellian, you won't want to read this vaudeville just once

While I tend to be more obsessed with my husband's exes than my husband himself, this book had me reeling, laughing and re-examining my life choices. I loved every minute

JENNY MOLLEN BIGGS, New York Times bestselling author of City of Likes

What a wonderfully tense, obsessive, enveloping novel- almost like a feminist, introspective spin on Fatal Attraction! Ventura's deftly spun debut is a sharply observed dissection of marriage that will haunt you for days

A novel you read thinking: this is dark, weird, and totally creepy but somehow I can't put it down

There's a Belle du Jour, Luis Brunel-esque vibe to this brilliantly written page-turner about glamourous Parisians and their outwardly enviable lives

Maud Ventura lives in Paris. She led the podcast division of one of France's major radio stations and speaks fluent English. My Husband, her first novel, was a bestseller in France and winner of the Prix du Premier Roman. 
 
Emma Ramadan (translator) is the recipient of the PEN Translation Prize, the Albertine Prize, an NEA Fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholarship. She lives in Brooklyn.

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