You will hear the words “MY HUSBAND” so many times throughout this book that you will have already lost track of the number of times you have heard it, before MONDAY is even over. My husband and I split the cost of our rent and utility bills evenly, but because doing so consumes such a big chunk of my husband’s monthly income, there are some tradeoffs. I love my husband as much as the first day I met him,” the narrator of Maud Ventura’s debut novel, My Husband, begins.

Weak, distracted Biden has let Iran's mullahs get away with murder - and now risks an unholy war: ANDREW NEIL spells out how the appeasing president MUST strike back with a vengeance to save his own skin. Superficially, the couple at the centre of Maud Ventura’s compulsively disquieting debut embody domestic bliss: they have good looks and professional success, two children and an elegant home. Temperamentally unsuited, they are only kept together by a mutual physical attraction, in spite of innumerable quarrels. There's something too of Forbidden Notebook and even a less dense version of Lessing's classic The Golden Notebook without the external politicised setting. This book is refreshingly different than the same old, same old that we read over and over until they all blend together.If the first person plural were to be used, we would say "We are going to a party" and "a neighbour has invited us to a party". You’re a liar, a cheat, unfaithful dog / You threw away all our love and trust / It’s so hard to see just who you are!

In different situations, either of these expressions may be right, and there is a simple way of deciding which one to choose. There are a lot of little things we pay for that contribute to our basic cost of living: rent, utilities, groceries and dining out are big ones for us. This other woman is a cocaine user - she has four kids that she can't control and who don't go to school, she doesn't work and has a filthy house – my husband told me all of this.

j'ai lu juste avant le dernier essai de Mona Chollet, Réinventer l'Amour, c'est drôle comme ces lectures se complètent quelque part. As soon as she became a newlywed and a mother of a child, Ushioda’s busy yet fulfilling days started. And as strange as it sounds, the thought that someone else found him attractive made me realise that he was still attractive.