A Best Book of the Year:
The Boston Globe
Lit Hub
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller
Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original

The #1 international bestseller and winner of France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt

“Mesmerizingly twisted.” —The New York Times Book Review, “The 10 Best Books of 2018.”

When Myriam decides to return to work as a lawyer after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their son and daughter. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family’s chic Paris apartment, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment, and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau. Building tension with every page, The Perfect Nanny is a compulsive, riveting, bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity, motherhood, and madness—and the American debut of an immensely talented writer.