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    The Outcome of Leila Slimani’s ‘The Perfect Nanny’ Can Only Be Disastrous

    by Mark Cecil Feb 09, 2018 3 minutes

    Reviews of award-winning, international sensation The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani have made much of the first line, “The baby is dead.” The first three pages pull no punches. There are graphic descriptions of two dead children in a Paris apartment, murdered by a nanny. A baby’s little body gets hauled off in a grey bag, zipped shut. The mother howls like a “she-wolf.”

    Shocking as this is, the real clue to what the book is aboutthan the first line. It’s in the epigraph, taken from :

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