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Jerome is a calm man - at least, that's what he'd always believed. But when his daughter's boyfriend dies in an accident, he is overwhelmed by unexpected grief. As he struggles to make sense of the loss and his own reaction to it, he finds himself assailed by emotions and memories he has allowed to lie dormant: the residual feelings for his ex-wife; a baffling new attraction to a stranger; a precarious friendship with a retired policeman; and, above all, unsettling questions about his own past and the family he never knew. In returning to the forests of his childhood and the darkest nights of the second world war, Jerome gradually, painfully begins to piece together the truth of his own origins and the tragedy that his adoptive parents tried to bury.
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'This is a superb study of grief that is both personal and national ... Brilliant and devastating' --The Times
`Desarthe's portrayal of a young woman devastated by grief is potent ... the rendering of the prose is flawless' --Independent on Sunday
'This quirky French bestseller captures the ennui of the featureless country town in impressionistic prose' --Guardian
'Desarthe's portrayal of a young woman devastated by grief is potent ... the rendering of the prose is flawless'
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`Desarthe's portrayal of a young woman devastated by grief is potent ... the rendering of the prose is flawless' --Independent on Sunday
'This quirky French bestseller captures the ennui of the featureless country town in impressionistic prose' --Guardian
'Desarthe's portrayal of a young woman devastated by grief is potent ... the rendering of the prose is flawless'
--Independent
AGNES DESARTHE was born in Paris in 1966 and has written many books for children and teenagers, as well as adult fiction. She won the Prix du Livre Inter in 1996 for Un Secret sans importance and has had three previous novels translated into English: Five Photos of My Wife, which was short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Jewish Quarterly Fiction Prize, Good Intentions, and Chez Moi (Portobello, 2008).
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- PublisherPortobello Books Ltd
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1846274125
- ISBN 13 9781846274121
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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