Margot Louve has lived her life as her parents' secret. For seventeen years, her father—an influential French politician with presidential ambitions—has led a double life: his only contact with Margot and her mother conducted in hidden moments away from his wife and official duties. In their small Parisian apartment on the Left Bank, Margot's mother, Anouk—a prominent actress—fiercely guards the closed world of secrecy she has built around them. It is a house of cards that Margot, fueled by a longing to be seen and heard, decides to tumble. That simmering summer, she meets the man who will set her plan in motion: a well-regarded journalist whose trust seems surprisingly easy to gain. Stunningly exposing the seams between private lives and public faces, The Margot Affair is a novel of truth and deceit, desire and transgression. It introduces a searing new voice in literary fiction.