The number-one bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt in 2019 – a compulsive, riveting and bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity and motherhood.
When Myriam decides to return to work, she and her husband look for a nanny for their two young children. They find their dream candidate: Louise, a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family’s chic Paris apartment, stays late without complaint and hosts enviable birthday parties. But as the couple and their nanny become increasingly dependent on each other, jealousy, resentment and suspicions start to breed, and Myriam and Paul’s idyllic domesticity is shattered.
Leïla Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby. Born in Rabat in 1981, and now living in Paris, she is a journalist and frequent commentator on women’s and human rights.
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