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Key ideas from the book
- The novel explores how a family’s reliance on a caregiver can develop into suffocating dependence.
- It examines the expectations and relationships surrounding childcare and family life.
- It brings questions of power and class prejudice into the setting of a household.
- It considers the distance between outward affection and the tensions that can build beneath it.
About The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani
When Myriam returns to work at a law office, she and her husband, Paul, hire Louise to care for their two young children. Louise quickly becomes cherished by the children and admired by their parents, an indispensable presence in the household. But the family’s growing reliance on her turns into a suffocating dependence, and tensions build toward an irreversible tragedy.
A tense family novel with a wider social lens, The Perfect Nanny examines ideas of love, child-rearing, family, power, and class prejudice. Slimani’s 2016 Prix Goncourt-winning novel may appeal to readers of literary suspense and fiction about domestic life and social relationships.
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