If we had not made it a point to talk about our long-terms goals, we would not have the understanding that we could (if necessary) put just my name on the deed. My parents helped with the kids, reassured me that things would be okay and came with me to meet with lawyers. Il est intense et il précipite dans les affres d’une passion qui ne s’éteint jamais, dans tout ce que ça peut avoir d’aliénant et de destructeur.

At forty years old, she has an enviable life: a successful career, stunning looks, a beautiful house in the suburbs, two healthy children, and most importantly, an ideal husband. Instead, he has his own short-term goals to look forward to and he knows that I am ready to be an active participant in them. In the relentless rain that followed, I found peace on my two-hour hikes; luckily, I’m surrounded in London by the towering trees and winding paths of Epping Forest; the rivers, canals and wetlands of the Olympic Park; and the semi-wild marshes near Hackney and Walthamstow. Small ones at first, like the fact he started staying later in London for after-work drinks, not getting home until I was asleep.

Three years on, post-divorce, my ex and I are now great friends – and both happy in new relationships. The 40-year-old protagonist defines her own existence fully by being a wife, her world revolves around her obsession with her husband, whose every gesture and utterance she ponders and over-interprets, spending every waking hour catastrophizing and plotting: She is a beautiful, empty shell who married up and now aims to be a trophy wife.

But the next morning, reality hit: it felt strange sipping a takeaway coffee together on a sunny bench, and yet not reneging on what had been agreed. She also rectifies the power imbalance by punishing her husband when she feels like he's not showing her enough attention, like denying morning cuddles when he doesn't hold her hand during a movie. After reading so many pages of the wife’s obsessiveness, and her only hobby of stalking her husband, I grew very tired of the repetitiveness and redundancy. Emma Ramadan (translator) is the recipient of the PEN Translation Prize, the Albertine Prize, an NEA Fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholarship. The wife cannot even love her own children, because she loves and obsesses over her own husband too much.With the surprise of Gone Girl, the bleakness of The Talented Mr Ripley and the sinister charm of the Netflix thriller You, My Husband is a bold and exhilarating story of passion and the dark secrets that lie beneath a seemingly healthy marriage. I have no doubt that the one that troubles you the most is probably why he’s seems to have chosen this woman over you, given what he’s previously said about her. In the 8th episode, Ji Won's boyfriend proposes with fireworks spelling out her favorite BTS song, 'Spring Day'. Yet, she's filled with anxiety that he will leave her someday and that thought is utterly dreadful to her. My favorite genre of book is “narrators that have something deeply wrong with their brains but are also super relatable” and this book is exactly that.