My Husband, Maud Ventura
My Husband, Maud Ventura
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My Husband
A Novel

Author: Maud Ventura

Narrator: Kiiri Sandy

Unabridged: 5 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperVia

Published: 07/11/2023

Synopsis

In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband—but can their marriage survive her passionate love?A Belletrist Book Club Pick • An Amazon UK Best Book of the Year • Winner of France’s First Novel Prize • Named a Best Book of the Summer by Vogue • theSkimm • Oprah Daily • The MillionsAt forty years old, she has an enviable life: a successful career, stunning looks, a beautiful house in the suburbs, two healthy children, and most importantly, an ideal husband, whose wealthy background allows her to transcend her own social class. After fifteen years together, she is still besotted with him. But she’s never quite sure that her passion is reciprocated.Determined to keep their relationship perfect, she meticulously prepares for every encounter they have, always taking care to make her actions seem effortless. She watches him attentively, testing him to make sure that he still loves her just as much as he did when they first met.Until one day she realizes she may have gone too far . . .“Fans of Caroline Kepnes’ You or Gillian Flynn will find My Husband to be a new, satisfying, and unnerving take on the relationship-suspense genre.” —Booklist (starred review)

About Maud Ventura

Maud Ventura lives in Paris. Before devoting herself to writing full-time, she led the podcast division of one of France's major radio stations. My Husband, her first novel, was a #1 bestseller in France and has been translated into more than ten languages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on April 02, 2025

Give me all the unhinged narrators. I love a novel that spirals in on its own intensity and insights, that’s my happy zone of books even if there is nary a plot to be found. French author Maud Ventura’s debut, My Husband, is an unnerving psychological whirlwind of overthinking, manipulation and dark......more

Goodreads review by emma on May 16, 2025

i only want to read lit fic about women being unwell. this is definitely that: a book about how a woman is so obsessed with her totally average husband that it controls every moment of her day, leading to weird interactions with her kids, pretty intense journaling, and general manipulation and malfea......more

Goodreads review by Riley on December 11, 2023

this is what all of my straight friends sound like when they talk about their mediocre boyfriends......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on October 24, 2023

Phew! I’m glad that’s over! This book was absolutely painful to read. I kept waiting for it to get better, but it kept getting progressively worse. And for this being a short book at only 272 pages, it felt like 572 pages. I did not enjoy this book at all. In this story we have a wife who is totally......more

Goodreads review by Meike on November 05, 2024

This French feminist debut novel is a very smart romp, as it illustrates what would happen if someone lived by the advice given in women's magazines regarding how to please and interpret a man. The 40-year-old protagonist defines her own existence fully by being a wife, her world revolves around her......more

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