The Perfect Nanny: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• A Best Book of the Year:The New York Times Book ReviewThe Boston GlobeReal SimpleLit HubEntertainment Weekly (honorable mention)

• Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller

• Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original

• Deliciously twisty . . . Slimani's exploration of race and class is razor-sharp and brilliantly provides the fuel for a hair-raising tale of domestic horror.

  — Entertainment Weekly

• The first ‘hot’ novel of 2018 . . . Talk about a guilty pleasure.

  — The Washington Post

• One of the most important books of the year. You can't un-read it.

  — Barrie Hardymon, NPR's Weekend Edition

• A great novel . . . Incredibly engaging and disturbing . . . Slimani has us in her thrall.

  — Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger

• I've thought about [it] pretty much every day. . . . [It] felt less like an entertainment, or even a work of art, than like a compulsion. I found it extraordinary.

  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker

• Exquisite . . . In Slimani's hands, the unthinkable becomes art.

  — Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

• So twisted and creepy, but absolutely captivating.

  — Lauren Christensen, The New York Times Book Review (podcast)

• It's excruciating, and almost more than anything that I could imagine—and therefore I read on.

  — Pamela Paul, The New York Times Book Review (podcast)

• Brilliantly observed . . . Slimani is brilliantly insightful about the peculiar station nannies assume within the households of working families.

  — The Wall Street Journal

• Dazzling . . . A portrait etched in shards of glass.

  — John Freeman, The Boston Globe

• A taut page-turner about what can happen when no one pays attention to what matters most . . . Illuminates the treatment of domestic workers, the petty ugliness that can be endemic to marriage, and the primal fears that accompany having children.

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• I devoured the entire thing in a day or two. . . . It's a gripping read.

  — Lori Keong, New York

• If you love dark, propulsive thrillers, you'll be hooked.

  — MSN

• Spare and evocative . . . A book that haunts you long after you've put it down.

  — The Cut

• [An] unnerving cautionary tale . . . Pretty radical for a domestic thriller, but what's more remarkable about this unconventional novel is the author's intimate analysis of the special relationship between a mother and a nanny. . . . Slimani writes devastatingly perceptive character studies.

  — Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

• Chilling . . . A slim page-turner, The Perfect Nanny can be read in a single, shivery sitting.

  — The Economist

• Slimani ratchets up the tension here through close quarters, resentment and complicity. The book . . . is chilling and an important look at the unseen challenges faced by service workers.

  — The Washington Post

• Grabs us by the throat . . . The story's tension builds relentlessly.

  — Minneapolis Star-Tribune

• This brutal chiller has the same compulsive readability as Emma Donoghue's Room.

  — The Guardian

• The ‘French Gone Girl’ . . . Anyone reading [it] can tell within a few paragraphs that its author is a mother . . . who has felt firsthand the perfect split of agony, ecstasy and mind-numbing boredom that motherhood entails.

  — The Telegraph

• A devastating, entrancing, literary psychological drama supported by absorbing character studies . . . Readers won't be able to look away.

  — Booklist