Anna was a good wife, mostly...
Anna Benz, an American in her late-thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno - a banker - and their three young children, in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich.
Though she leads a comfortable life, she is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with Bruno, or even her own feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises her.
Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back...
Anna Karenina goes Fifty Shades with a side of Madame Bovary; Hausfrau is the exceptional, haunting, and elegant debut novel from the prize-winning American poet, Jill Alexander Essbaum.
Share your favourite sex scenes from books for your chance to win a copy of Hausfrau plus a huge box of luxury chocolates worth £100!
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UrsulaMumsnet · 21/03/2016 10:51
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