A Bird in Winter by Louise Doughty; A Line in the Sand by Kevin Powers; My Husband by Maud Ventura; Case Sensitive by AK Turner; The Turnglass by Gareth Rubin
Thriller of the monthMy Husband: A Novel by Maud Ventura, trans by Emma RamadanThe French narrator of Maud Ventura’s sharply written debut loves her husband dee
In Maud Ventura’s “My Husband,” a Frenchwoman cannot stop surveilling her spouse: “I think of my husband all the time; I wish I could text him all day.”