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The
2003 Award
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The Happy Housewife by
Heleen van Royen
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Virago Press ISBN 1860499007 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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Lea, an immaculate thirtysomething, who thinks emancipation is a dirty word
and that God should have made women out of plastic. Her over-worked husband,
Harry, seems happy to finance her glossy lifestyle, but one day he announces
it's payback time. He wants a baby. Lea is mortified, but eventually agrees
to Harry's demand in exchange for sex on a daily basis and a new Filipino
maid. Harry Jrn's arrival, after a labour of epic dreadfulness, puts an end to Lea's career as a lady who lunches. While everyone around her is over the moon about the new baby, Lea is no longer a happy housewife. Stripped of her comforts and her distractions, she will have to confront herself and a past tragedy before she can face the future. But have the years of cosseting left her too vulnerable? |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Heleen van Royen was born in Amsterdam in 1965. The Happy Housewife, her first novel, was a bestseller in Holland and rights have been sold internationally. |
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