
Hausfrau is the exceptional debut novel from the prize-winning American poet Jill Alexander Essbaum ' The Book that will have everyone talking' Cosmopolitan Anna Benz an American in her late-thirties lives with her Swiss husband Bruno
- a banker
- & their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zurich Though she leads a comfortable life she is falling apart inside Adrift & increasingly unable to connect with Bruno or even her own feelings Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences German language classes Jungian analysis & a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises her But she soon finds that she can't easily extract herself from these relationships Having crossed a moral threshold Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back