| Author/Contributor(s): | Wayne, Teddy |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial |
| Date: | 6/29/2027 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
"Is anything more dangerous than a fragile male ego?”—The New York Times
A New York Times Novel Everyone Will Be Talking About This Year
A Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Town & Country, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Lit Hub, Men's Journal, and Zibby Books Most Anticipated/Summer Books pick
“Nervewrackingly fun.”—Vogue, Best Books of the Year So Far
“A tightly constructed, endlessly exhilarating thriller.”—Town & Country
“A heart-pounding mystery that reads like a movie."—People
A seductively twisty page-turner about the explosive impact of a beautiful Norwegian au pair on a celebrated novelist and his wife that “cements Teddy Wayne’s status as a master of the wicked little literary thriller” (Rumaan Alam).
Steven Hammer was once a literary star. Now his career is floundering, his marriage to a high-powered woman is crumbling, and the only bright spot in his life is Astrid, the Norwegian au pair who cares for their children—and reveres his neglected novels. But what began as a secret infatuation soon spirals into a scandal that makes them both infamous.
As a headline-grabbing trial captivates the world with a salacious story of sex, power, and betrayal, Steven must confront the wreckage he’s created—and the deeper insecurities that fueled it. Is Astrid an innocent young woman caught up in a case beyond her control or a calculating femme fatale? And how far will Steven, driven by desperation and obsession, go for her professed love?
With inexorable momentum and sly, lucid prose, Teddy Wayne’s The Au Pair is a sleek literary thriller about desire, deception, and the unraveling of a man as he grapples with his fading relevance—when the lies others spin pale beside the fictions we tell ourselves.