Little White Lies

Halina Reijn

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Halina Reijn’s Babygirl finds Nicole Kidman’s Romy ostensibly leading the perfect life: a powerful CEO living in a gorgeous New York penthouse with a loving, sex-hungry husband in Antonio Banderas’ Jacob. Still, she is willing to throw it all away when Harris Dickinson’s suave intern Samuel enters her office. This is Reijn’s searing follow-up to 2019’s Instinct and 2022’s Bodies Bodies Bodies.

  As an artist, I have the same question: are we civilised, I discovered humour and loved it. When I began writing , I wanted it to be warmer than , but the topics of control, sexuality and surrender fascinate me and I will create stories about them until I die.

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