Adele
By (Author) Lela Slimani
Translated by Sam Taylor
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
7th January 2020
3rd October 2019
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
843.92
Paperback
224
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 15mm
156g
From the bestselling author of Lullaby
'Riveting.' - Evening Standard
'Explosive.' - Mail on Sunday
'Thrilling.' - Sunday Times
'A must-read.' - Vogue
Her obsessions devour her. She is helpless to stop them...
Adele has a seemingly enviable life. She is a respected journalist, living in a flawless Paris apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of 'having it all', Adele is bored. She begins to orchestrate her life around one-night stands and extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until her compulsions threaten to consume her altogether.
Leila Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby. A journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.