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Also by Leila Slimani:

I'll Take the Fire, June 2026
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Watch Us Dance, June 2024
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Watch Us Dance, June 2023
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In the Country of Others, May 2022
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In the Country of Others, August 2021
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The Perfect Nanny, April 2019
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Ad?le, January 2019
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The Perfect Nanny, January 2018
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AD?LE
By: Leila Slimani

Penguin Books
January 2019
On Sale: January 15, 2019
240 pages
ISBN: 0143132180
EAN: 9780143132189
Kindle: B07D23Z3MC
Trade Size / e-Book
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Women's Fiction | Suspense Psychological

From the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny--one of the 10 Best Books of the Year of The New York Times Book Review--her prizewinning novel about a sex-addicted woman in Paris

She wants only one thing: to be wanted.

Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex.

Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap of her own making. Suspenseful, erotic, and electrically charged, Adèle is a captivating exploration of addiction, sexuality, and one woman's quest to feel alive.