{"product_id":"wifehouse-by-sonya-walger-9781786586421","title":"Wifehouse","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJe suis femme maison.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"You are a wifehouse? Oh, a housewife. \u003ci\u003eJe suis une femme au foyer.\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Wow, that actually sounds worse in French. Let's go with \u003ci\u003eje suis mère\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHe is drenched in youth, this young man,\u003c\/i\u003e she thinks. \u003ci\u003eHe is soaked in all its possibilities.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnnie and Hector have been hosting family friends in the guest house of their Connecticut home for many months. As a thank you, Annie is gifted French lessons with a twenty-six-year-old local French tutor, Thierry. Hector, an actor, goes to Argentina to film on location, leaving Annie to single-parent their two kids. As life 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\u003eBookended by two Christmas lunches and 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455880446188,"sku":"9781786586421","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781786586421.jpg?v=1774863074","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/wifehouse-by-sonya-walger-9781786586421","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}