{"product_id":"wifehouse","title":"Wifehouse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA captivating, beautifully written novel about a mother who chooses to leave her family, for readers of Miranda July\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnnie and Hector have been hosting family friends in the guest house of their Connecticut home for many months. As a thank you, Annie is gifted French lessons with a twenty-six-year-old local French tutor, Thierry. Hector, an actor, goes to Argentina to film on location, leaving Annie to single-parent their two kids. As life and the lessons progress, she finds herself unexpectedly vulnerable to the charms of a man closer in age to her teenage daughter than to her own. A new life for Annie emerges, one she could never have foreseen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBookended by two Christmas lunches and told over the course of one year through the shifting perspectives of wife, husband, lover, best friend and children, Walger paints a contradictory, nuanced portrait of a woman who walks away from every role that tradition and society have expected of her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003eImprint: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eManilla\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished: April 2026\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781786586421\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonya Walger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56476888891558,"sku":"9781786586421","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/1465\/6166\/files\/WIFEHOUSE_SONYA_WALGER.jpg?v=1779075899","url":"https:\/\/enamouredbooks.co.nz\/products\/wifehouse","provider":"Enamoured Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}