Anna Benz, an American living with her Swiss husband and their family in Zurich is the Hausfrau in question in Jill Alexander Essenbaum's first novel.
The Benz family appear to lead a comfortable conventional lifestyle but we soon discover that Anna is isolated and emotionally vulnerable. Bored and frustrated by her lifestyle and the rigors of Swiss family life and society Anna seeks solace in a variety of extra marital affairs, entering into sordid sexual situations with men who she increasingly doesn't even like.
Anna is losing control and when the unimaginable happens she discovers that she is truly lost and there is no going back.
Hausfrau is a really good book but it's not an easy or comfortable read. It's quite disturbing yet very clever. It's about love and loss and will leave you questioning many things. (And that cover - it's just gorgeous. Cover of the year so far for me...)
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