Teddy Wayne, Author of 'The Au Pair'
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Teddy Wayne, Author of 'The Au Pair'

Jun 30, 2026
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The people, companies and trends shaping the global economy. Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . Steven Hammer was once a literary star. Now, his career is floundering, his marriage to a high-powered woman is crumbling, and the only bright spot in his life is Astrid, the Norwegian au pair who cares for their children—and reveres his neglected novels. But what begins as a secret infatuation soon spirals into a scandal that makes them both infamous. With inexorable momentum and sly, lucid prose, Teddy Wayne’s The Au Pair is a sleek literary thriller about desire, deception, and the unraveling of a man as he grapples with his fading relevance—when the lies others spin pale beside the fictions we tell ourselves For more, Carol Massar Tim Stenovec speak with Teddy Wayne, Author of 'The Au Pair' See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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