{"product_id":"wifehouse","title":"Wifehouse","description":"\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;'\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Wifehouse \u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;reads like a storm in a soundproof room. I absolutely loved it\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;' Miranda Cowley Heller, International Bestselling author of THE PAPER PALACE\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;'\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;A magnificent, richly-textured novel.\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; \u0026lt;b\u0026gt;It thrums with energy\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;' Kate Kemp, author of THE GRAPEVINE\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;'Page by page, it closed around me like a vice' \u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;Camilla Barnes, author of THE USUAL DESIRE TO KILL\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\"\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Je suis femme maison.\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;\"\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\"You are a wifehouse? Oh, a housewife. \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Je suis une femme au foyer.\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;\"\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\"Wow, that actually sounds worse in French. Let's go with \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;je suis mère\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;.\"\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;He is drenched in youth, this young man,\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; she thinks. \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;He is soaked in all its possibilities.\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;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 . . .\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;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.\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487825142133,"sku":"9781786586384","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786586384.jpg?v=1786355049","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/wifehouse","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}