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, whose wealthy background allows her to transcend her own social class. After fifteen years together, she is still besotted with him. But she's never quite sure that her passion is reciprocated. Determined to keep their relationship perfect, she meticulously prepares for every encounter they have, always taking care to make her actions seem effortless. She watches him attentively, testing him to make sure that he still loves her just as much as he did when they first met. Until one day she realizes she may have gone too far.
Ventura does an excellent job of slowly escalating the narrator's neuroses ... And yet the book, while disturbing, is also very funny ... Will have you thinking hard about the meaning of love.
A sexually charged contemporary drama, crackling with marital intrigue and domestic unease ... Darkly humorous ... An incisive character study of a woman's complicated interiority, her manic, manipulative behavior concealed beneath a perfectly composed exterior ... Brilliant.
