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The story of a woman's life, from childhood to death, somewhere in provincial France, from the 1950s to just shy of 2025.
She has doting parents, does well at school, finds a loving husband after one abortive attempt at passion, buys a big house with a moonlit terrace, makes decent money, has children, changes jobs, retires, grows old and dies. All in the comfort that the middle-classes have grown accustomed to.
But she's bored.
She takes up all sorts of outlets to try to make something happen in her life: adultery, charity work, esotericism, manic house-cleaning, motherhood and various hobbies - each one abandoned faster than the last. But no matter what she does, her life remains unfocussed and unfulfilled. Nothing truly satisfies her, because deep down - just like the town where she lives - the landscape is non-descript, flat, horizontal.
Sophie Divry dramatises the philosophical conflict between freedom and comfort that marks women's lives in a materialistic world. Our heroine is an endearing, contemporary Emma Bovary, and Divry's prose will remind readers of the best of Houellebecq, the cold, implacable historian who paints a precise portrait of an era and those who inhabit it and in doing so renders existence indelibly absurd.
Translated from the French by Alison Anderson
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With its winks and nods to Flaubert's Madame Bovary, this is one of the most exciting finds of the season (Le Monde)
The most paradoxical novel of the season: depressing, even desperately so, but at the same time, profoundly exalting, gentle and fluid (L’Hebdo)
One can't help thinking of Houellebecq when talking about Madame Bovary of the Suburbs (Elle)
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The most paradoxical novel of the season: depressing, even desperately so, but at the same time, profoundly exalting, gentle and fluid (L’Hebdo)
One can't help thinking of Houellebecq when talking about Madame Bovary of the Suburbs (Elle)
A sharp, fresh novel about a woman who lives the life she's meant to lead but finds it lacking - from the author of the much-loved The Library of Unrequited Love
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