{"product_id":"wifehouse-by-sonya-walger-9781786586384","title":"Wifehouse","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWifehouse\u003c\/em\u003e reads like a storm in a soundproof room. I absolutely loved it\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMiranda Cowley Heller, International Bestselling author of The Paper Palace\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA magnificent, richly-textured novel. It thrums with energy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKate Kemp, author of The Grapevine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJe suis femme maison.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"You are a wifehouse? Oh, a housewife. \u003cem\u003eJe suis une femme au foyer.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Wow, that actually sounds worse in French. Let's go with \u003cem\u003eje suis mère\u003c\/em\u003e.\" \u003cem\u003eHe is drenched in youth, this young man,\u003c\/em\u003e she thinks. \u003cem\u003eHe is soaked in all its possibilities.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing 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...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTold 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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47497012379884,"sku":"9781786586384","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8f5b85c2f52d89ee38ae3a9a4745ad9c.jpg?v=1776124895","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/wifehouse-by-sonya-walger-9781786586384","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}