Sonya Walger WIFEHOUSE

Schedule

Mon Apr 20 2026 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Blackwell's Bookshop | Oxford, EN

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Actress Sonya Walger joins us for a talk about her new novel, 'Wifehouse'. A story of a married women's affair with a younger French tutor
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Wifehouse

Following years of a life lived as a wife and mother, Annie is gifted French lessons with twenty-six-year-old local French tutor, Thierry. As time passes and the lessons progress, she finds herself unexpectedly vulnerable to the charms of a man closer in age to her teenage daughter than to her own. A new life for Annie emerges, one she could never have foreseen
Told over the course of one year through the shifting perspectives of wife, husband, lover, best friend and children, Walger paints a contradictory, nuanced portrait of a woman who walks away from every role that tradition and society have expected of her.

Sonya Walger

Sonya Walger is an English actress known for her roles in the ABC series Lost as Penelope "Penny" Widmore, and as Olivia Benford on ABC's FlashForward. A student of English literature at Christ Church College at the University of Oxford and host of the literature podcast bookish, Walger is a long-time literary enthusiast whose debut novel Lion is a work of autofiction about her relationship with her father.

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