Adèle

Adele is a woman who seemingly has it all: A successful surgeon husband, a healthy son, a stylish Parisian apartment and a career as a newspaper journalist.

In reality, she's bored and gripped by an insatiable need to seek out illicit sexual encounters with men behind her husband's back.

Through her descriptions of the mundanity of marriage and motherhood, Slimani presents an unusually rare depiction of female sex addiction that is both bleak and troubling, rather than sexual or erotic. This pacey pageturner is an easy read that keeps you guessing about how Adele's fate will unravel, and while her destructive actions are often nightmarish, she's a character that anyone who has ever felt a little un- satisfied with life, should be able to relate to.