Lela Slimani returns with her third novel, The Perfect Nanny, following the international success of her first, The Perfect Nanny, which won the 2016 Goncourt Prize. In Adele, the Franco-Moroccan author tells the terrifying story of a Paris-based journalist whose life is consumed by infatuation.

Adèle looks to have it all: she is a renowned journalist in Paris who lives in a lovely apartment with her surgeon husband and their small boy. However, behind the surface, she is bored and possessed by an insatiable need for sex. Adèle plans her day around her adulterous affairs, coming late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been until she finds entangled in a trap of her own design. Adèle is a riveting investigation of addiction, sexuality, and one woman's struggle to feel alive. It is suspenseful, seductive, and electrically charged.

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Serotonin is a novel by French author Michel Houellebecq that was released in January 2019. Serotonin, the story of a lovesick agricultural engineer who develops trade reports for the French agriculture ministry and despises the EU, has been lauded as caustic and prescient by the French media. Serotonin is typical of a Houellebecq work in that it has those who adore it and those who despise it. Serotonin is plainly negative, but not nihilistic, as Houellebecq is sometimes accused of being. Florent is fascinated with living a meaningful life.

Michel Houellebecq, a popular figure in France, has written a new novel that takes a severe look at 21st-century culture, drug addiction, and globalization. The plot is set between Paris and Normandy, and it follows a disillusioned government worker who wants to restart his life only to discover that rural France is crumbling owing to big business and European agricultural policy.

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Known for her strong female characters, Goncourt Prize laureate and Booker Prize contender Marie NDiaye brings readers inside the world of gastronomy through the perspective of a female chef struggling to build a name for herself in a profession dominated by males in her latest novel.

The narrative of the Cheffe, a lady who lives solely for the purpose of making amazing culinary pleasures, is told by the acclaimed French writer Marie NDiaye, the Prix Goncourt-winning author of Three Strong Women. Born into poverty in southwestern France, the Cheffe obtains a job as a teenager working for a wealthy couple in a nearby town. It doesn't take long for it to become evident that she has a unique, exceptional ability for cooking, and her sheer talent and drive rapidly place her in command of the couple's kitchen. Despite her enjoyment of the culinary limelight, the Cheffe keeps the rest of her life a closely guarded secret.

She doesn't express any of her sentiments or emotions. She falls pregnant but refuses to tell the father of her child. When the pressures of her job become too much for her, she abandons her infant in the care of her family and sets out to create her own restaurant, which receives amazing reviews. As time passes, Cheffe's relationship with her daughter remains strained, and it finally threatens to demolish everything Cheffe has worked so hard to perfect. This magnificent novel by Marie NDiaye is a gustatory tour de force, told from the perspective of Cheffe's former aide and unrequited lover.

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Following the triumph of her worldwide best-seller Based on a True Story, the award-winning novelist's latest work weaves a gripping story with four stories of secrets, obsessions, and loyalties. Pick No and Me comes from the author of the Richard and Judy Book Club. In this fascinating investigation of the damaging secrets and loyalties maintained behind closed doors, adults are as lost as the children they should be safeguarding.' It packs a powerful emotional blow. It reminded me of Leila Slimani's excellent Lullaby' Bookseller'. Narration that packs a punch and moves at a breakneck pace.

'You're kept reading hopelessly until the frantic cliffhanger end,' says the Daily Mail. Théo, thirteen, and his pal Mathis share a secret. Hélène, their instructor, senses something is wrong with Théo and becomes preoccupied with saving him, abandoning her professionalism to the point of no return. Cécile, Mathis's mother, discovers something horrible on her husband's computer, leading her to wonder if she has ever actually known him. Respectable facades are torn away as the four stories wound together tighter and tighter, becoming a slim and darkly riveting story of loneliness, deceit, and loyalty.

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Lie with me is a fairly ordinary tale and book, yet it is well written. It is translated from the original French, so compliments to both the author, Philippe Besson, and the translator, Molly Ringwald. As previously said, there were several lines in which people praised the way a human feeling or truth was expressed. Philippe Besson, the critically renowned author, returns to his origins in rural France in this novel about a love affair between two 17-year-old lads in the 1980s.

Many consider the emotional novel to be semi-autobiographical, and it was translated into English by actress Molly Ringwald, who portrayed her fair share of disturbed teens in classic 1980s films like "Sixteen Candles" and "The Breakfast Club."

Link to read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40539136