81xk8pwLRVL._SL1500_Hausfrau, the positively delectable novel by Jill Alexander Essbaum, has a shiny book jacket with roses in bloom on the cover. One could say it’s almost like a foiled chocolate that you would open up and want to eat. Well, what’s inside the pages of this book are ones you are going to devour like a box of fine Swiss chocolates.

The story involves an American woman living in Switzerland with her Swiss husband.As you may or may not know the Swiss are different. They have a particular way of doing things and if you want to get along it’s best to follow the rules. Anna and her husband Bruno have a marriage with three kids. Seemingly from the outside, they have a perfect life.

What’s inside the marriage is a completely different picture. Anna is bored with her marriage and sort of likes the temptations of having affairs with men. She sleeps with a classmate in her German lesson, a friend of the family amongst others. She is also seeing a therapist to see why she feels the way she does and why does the things she does.

Oh, did I mention Anna kind of likes it rough during sex? (Hello, Fifty Shades of Gray.) Ms. Essbaum goes to places in the novel that make you squirm with would you or wouldn’t you. Is she a bad mother and wife? (let the debates begin.) She realizes that she chose a life maybe she didn’t want to have.

She is a bored hausfrau. She feels guilt at times but still can’t give up the habit. She also gives in at one point to being a good wife and gives it all she’s got sexually with her husband.

It works for a while but her Swiss husband tires of it and it just isn’t doing for her either. This is when the novel takes a turn that you won’t see coming and ending that will have you talking for days, begging your friends to read this book so you can discuss it with them. Now if there’s any justice in the world this book should sell truckloads of copies. It has the potential to become this year’s breakout book club hit.

If this book were truly a chocolate wrapper and you just ate the chocolate inside you would literally want to lick the wrapper and inhale the last odor of chocolate. Yes, Hausfrau is that good!