The Au Pair
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Sprache:Englisch
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ePUB 3
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
30.06.2026
Verlag
HarperCollinsSeitenzahl
272 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
4808 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780008849795
Named a 'Most-Anticipated Book' by The New York Times and LitHub
Steven Hammer was once a literary star. Now, his career is floundering, his marriage to high-powered banker Lucy is crumbling, and the only bright spot in his life is Astrid, the Norwegian au pair who cares for their children - and reveres his neglected novels. But what begins as a secret infatuation soon spirals into a scandal that makes them both infamous.
As a headline-grabbing trial captivates the world with a salacious story of sex, power, and betrayal, Steven must confront the wreckage he's created - and the deeper insecurities that fuelled it. Is Astrid an innocent young woman caught up in a case beyond her control, or a calculating femme fatale? And how far will he go, driven by desperation and obsession, for her professed love?
With propulsive momentum, sharp wit and sly, lucid prose, The Au Pair is a sleek literary thriller about failure, desire, and the unravelling of a man as he grapples with his fading relevance - when the lies others spin pale beside the fictions we tell ourselves.
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Praise for The Au Pair:
'The Au Pair is Teddy Wayne at his immensely readable best. The plot ratchets up in the creepiest, most chilling way while deliciously skewering the Brooklyn literary set. It's a book you'll tear through, one that leaves you guessing until the last page' Maria Semple, author of Go Gentle
'You may think you know where it's going, this novel about a disappointed writer, his frosty wife, and a comely young nanny. You may be in for a surprise. Propulsive but also insightful - and funny, in its merciless skewering of midlife, marriage, and more - The Au Pair cements Teddy Wayne's status as a master of the wicked little literary thriller' Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind
'An ingenious dissection of marriage, masculinity, and privilege, propelled by a gimlet-eyed wit... A sly, unsettling hybrid of social satire and domestic thriller' Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
'A sharp domestic thriller... An intricate look at the perils of seeking admiration. Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down' Publishers Weekly
'Teddy Wayne has written a book about selling out that doesn't-a guilty pleasure that earns its guilt. The Au Pair is a canny seduction wrapped in a page-turning thriller wrapped in an elegy for the literary novel: a threefold delight' Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Homeland Elegies and The Radiance
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