by Heleen van Royen · Vassallucci · tapa dura · ISBN 9789050001441
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«De gelukkige huisvrouw» is the novel by Dutch writer Heleen van Royen, published by Vassallucci in hardback (298 pages, in Dutch).
The novel follows Lea, a young wife of comfortable means in Aerdenhout whose carefree life is shaken when her husband insists on having a child. The pregnancy and a complicated birth trigger an emotional crisis that leads her to rethink her marriage, her motherhood, and her mental stability.
Originally published in 2000 in Amsterdam by Vassallucci, it is a Dutch novel of contemporary fiction.
For readers of contemporary fiction and chick lit, with an interest in plots about marriage, motherhood, and mental health.
Heleen van Royen is a Dutch novelist and columnist. Her novel De gelukkige huisvrouw was the best-selling Dutch novel of 2010. The candid descriptions of sexuality found in her books and her columns have drawn considerable attention, as have her personal revelations about sexual fantasies, even to the point of ridicule: Dorine Wiersma won the Annie M.G. Schmidt award for best theatrical song for "Stoute Heleen", a crude pastiche of van Royen's depictions of her own sexuality. Two of van Royen's novels were adapted for film, De gelukkige huisvrouw, and De ontsnapping. She has two children, daughter Olivia and son Sam. In November 2006, van Royen posed in the nude for Playboy.
