Title : Baton Rouge - Patricia Cornwell - book Summary : Baton Rouge, Louisiana, population 230,000, former French trading post on the Mississippi... A hub of all kinds of trafficking, it's the city in the United States with the highest number of crimes per capita. It's also where Kay Scarpetta has a date with her destiny, because the Chandonne brothers haven't forgotten her. Death lurks deep in the bayou and strikes in series. Will Scarpetta's friends arrive in time to foil the trap? EAN : 9782702134153 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Garden of Badalpour - Kenizé Mourad - book Summary : In India, within the walls of the decrepit palace of the late Rajah of Badalpur, there is a small garden where a young Western woman regularly comes to recharge her batteries, because Zahr, daughter of a sultana and descendant of one of the last sovereigns of Constantinople, is also the daughter of a Rajah, and therefore of this Indian land. Her story is that of a woman who, upon coming into the world, lost everything: her name, her first name, her age, her country, her parents - her mother, having fled India, entrusted her to an adoptive family before dying. As an adult, Zahr embarks on a desperate search for her true identity, without which she feels she cannot begin to live. At twenty-one, after many years of searching, she will find her father and her country. She will discover a family that has been torn apart since India's independence, a minority and persecuted Muslim community. Her Western habits shock her and earn her many rebuffs. Furthermore, she is only a woman and, as such, has few rights. But she has finally found the happiness of having a family and a father she adores. Until her world collapses again and she is forced to leave everything behind. Twenty years later she returns and, after many struggles, ends up understanding that these "belongings" to which everyone clings are in fact only crutches that help one to stand, barriers that limit, often even blinders that blind. Now, freed from her ghosts, will Zahr be able to move on to other horizons, light, finally ready to dance her life? Kénizé Mourad was a journalist and worked for twelve years as a senior reporter specializing in Middle Eastern and Indian subcontinent affairs. Ten years ago, she dedicated a famous novel to her family's history: From the Dead Princess (Laffont), which sold several million copies. The Garden of Badalpour is the second installment of this family saga. EAN : 9782213601267 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Two Schools - Yves Viollier - book Summary : Against the backdrop of the debate between public and private schools, the great novel of friendship. 984. Demonstrations are breaking out all over France in defense of free schools. For Chrysostome Lhermite, these events echo unbearably a distant and painful past, from his youth, when clans were already clashing. With his neighbor, his friend, Louis Malidin, they were then as close as fingers on a hand. That was before the war between the schools reached them in the flesh, before it led them to build a wall between their two houses. Has nothing changed, fifty years later? Or will 1984 finally be the occasion to sign the armistice and for their friendship to be reborn? With In The Two Schools, Yves Viollier delivers a wonderful lesson in hope in the power of forgiveness. EAN : 9782221140307 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Secret of the Reeds - Jean Anglade - book Summary : In present-day Auvergne, the tranquility of a small village of a dozen inhabitants is about to be put to the test by the massive arrival of people of all kinds. Humor and relevance are at the heart of this novel, marked by the inimitable pen of Jean Anglade. Chaumont-sur-Dorette, in Auvergne, surrounded by woods and pastures, at an altitude of a thousand meters, leads a life in winter with its dozen inhabitants hardly more agitated than that of its cemetery. Summer changes everything. Many Southerners occupy its Rapans inn, fill the Auvergne hamlet with their volubility, their laughter, their games of pétanque, and for two months make it "Marseille-sur-Dorette". At the same time, the Vie et Foi colony brings eighty young thugs, both male and female, supervised by educators who strive to put these misguided children back on the path of virtue. Everything becomes complicated... Luce Rodary, twelve years old, daughter of the innkeepers, falls in love with Mr. Jo, director of the colony. When she is told that, despite his American cap and his guitar, Mr. Jo is a Catholic priest, she refuses to believe it... EAN : 9782258057678 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Voyage A Pitchipoi - Jean-Claude Moscovici - book Summary : Journey to Pitchipoï tells the story of the tragedy of a Jewish family in France during the war, a tragedy that millions of other families shared. In 1942, the author of this book was six years old. His family was arrested by German and French gendarmes and dispersed. The narrator and his little sister were initially entrusted to neighbors until the village mayor enforced the decision of the SS captain, Commander of the region and responsible for anti-Semitic repression: "The reception of Jewish children in French families is undesirable and will not be authorized under any circumstances." The two children were then locked up in a prison, then transferred to the Drancy camp, where the little girl fell ill from malnutrition. Throughout this period, they had no news of their mother, who had miraculously managed to escape and had not been recaptured, despite the doors often closing when she asked for help. After months of living in hiding, they returned home after the Liberation. They were never to see their father again. EAN : 9782211035965 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Transatlantic - Colum McCann - book Summary : After the immense success of And as the wide world continues its mad dash, McCann returns with his most ambitious, most masterful, most accomplished novel. Drawing on an impressive construction of ingenuity and mastery, the author builds a bridge across the Atlantic, between America and Ireland, from the 19th century to the present day. Blending history and fiction, this is a dazzling work about uprooting, loss, and self-improvement. After And let the wide world continue its mad dash, the great return of Colum McCann. Drawing on an impressive construction of ingenuity and mastery, the author builds a bridge across the Atlantic, between America and Ireland, from the 19th century to the present day. Blending history and fiction, a dizzying fresco of haunting beauty. In Dublin in 1845, seventeen-year-old servant Lily Duggan meets the gaze of Frederick Douglass, the Dark Dandy, the runaway slave, the first to bear witness to the absolute horror in his memoirs. That day, Lily understands that she must change her life and embarks for the New World, thus changing her destiny and that of her descendants, over four generations. In Dublin, 150 years later, Hannah, his great-granddaughter, tries to draw from the story of her ancestors the strength to survive loss and loneliness. "This is what interests Colum McCann: at the heart of violence, lives lived in spite of everything; these invisible skeins that intertwine places, times and characters; this way the past has of resurfacing in the strangest way possible." Publishers Weekly EAN : 9782714450074 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The English Passengers - Matthew Kneale - book Summary : In London, in 1857, one of the greatest adventures of the century is being prepared: Reverend Wilson intends to prove to the world that the Garden of Eden exists and is located in Tasmania. Faithful to the great tradition of 19th-century adventure stories, but also resolutely modern in its questioning of racism, religions and colonization, this is a formidable novel with a philosophical dimension, exceptional humor, erudition and quality of writing. In London in 1857, one of the greatest adventures of the century is brewing: driven as much by a divine revelation as by his dreams of glory, Reverend Wilson intends to prove to the world that the Garden of Eden is in Tasmania. Accompanied by a disillusioned young botanist and a doctor who has secretly written sinister treatises on the superiority of the white race, the reverend embarks aboard the ship of Captain Kewley, who is more interested in selling his contraband cargo than in the mystical quest of his passengers. Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, Peevay the Aboriginal recounts his people's struggles against the settlers, those "ghosts with dead skin and toeless feet." At the end of a perilous journey, as the English passengers approach the island of Peevay, the clash between two civilizations that are complete opposites seems inevitable... Whitbread Prize for Best Novel and Best Book of the Year 2000 Relay Prize for Escape Novel 2002. EAN : 9782714438683 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Chimeras - Nuala O'Faolain - book Summary : With Chimeras, Nuala O'Faolain confirms her formidable talent as a storyteller. When she takes on the fate of Kathleen de Burca, who returns to Ireland to investigate a case of adultery that occurred in the 19th century, she brings to light from her oppressed Irish conscience intimate and historical tragedies, while at the same time evoking the nagging questions of exile, solitude, sexuality, and the illusions of love. Because passion is the great issue of her life, Kathleen wants to write about the scandal that arose, shortly after the Great Famine, from the affair between an English aristocrat and her Irish groom. But her research insidiously confronts her with her own past: in a back-and-forth between the Ireland of 1850 and that of her childhood, she highlights the inevitabilities of history, far from discovering the recipes for this romantic love. This novel invites us on a real-life journey to an Ireland that the narrator left to escape family unhappiness and that she learns by listening to simple joys, soothing beings, and an enchanting nature. It is also a journey to the heart of the identity of a woman of today, the moving Kathleen de Burca. The lucidity and tenderness that characterize Nuala O'Faolain's writing give strength and richness to a book whose outcome is as unexpected as it is magnificent. EAN : 9782848050164 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : De Gaulle my father - Interviews with Michel Tauriac, volume 1 - Philippe de Gaulle - book Summary : If there is one statesman who has inspired biographers, it is Charles de Gaulle. But who can know him better than his own son, this privileged witness who experienced every stage of his epic journey up close? Who can better describe him with his family, with all the doors of the house closed, surrounded by his children and grandchildren, and lovingly watched over by his wife, listening to him when he speaks and does not want to be heard, translating the slightest inflection of his voice and his silences? Who can reach his heart even in the most secret moments, share his confidences on everything, as much on his private life as on History, on his arm wrestling with Churchill and Roosevelt, on his quarrels with Pétain or Giraud? On poetry and on the forest, as on the failure of Dakar, his relations with the resistance and his face to face with Stalin? If Philippe de Gaulle agreed for the first time to engage so deeply with Michel Tauriac's incisive questions, it was not only to answer the questions that continue to be asked about the author of his days, but also to destroy fabrications and abusive interpretations, set the record straight, and shed light on the mysteries that still hover over various affairs - such as the assassination of Darlan and the General's coup against the Allies to liberate Paris, retain Strasbourg, and cross the Rhine. More than a collection of interviews, this book is an unprecedented testimony that reads like a novel. EAN : 9782259197540 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Model Assassin - Christopher Carter - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782221089064 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Calder Enigma - Blue Balliett - book Summary : Leaving his friends Petra and Tommy in Chicago, Calder accompanies his father, Walter Pillay, to Oxford, Great Britain, for the first time. He discovers England, its old buildings, its winding streets... But in a village square, he finds a very familiar setting: The Minotaur, the work of the famous sculptor Calder. The boy greatly admires the artist whose name he is proud to bear. However, the locals, for their part, do not appreciate modern sculpture. So one morning, The Minotaur has disappeared... and Calder too!!! Petra and Tommy are called to the rescue to solve the mystery of its disappearance. EAN : 9782092520567 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Inheritance - Penny Jordan - book Summary : At thirty-seven, Davina James finds herself at a turning point in her life. The unloved child, then the shy teenager raised in a boarding school from which she only left, after her mother's death, to serve as a governess to her own father, married at twenty a man who never loved her. A greedy and selfish man who saw in her only the heiress of Carey Chemicals, her father's pharmaceutical laboratory. Now a widow, Davina, devastated, discovers that not only was her husband cheating on her, but also that he ruined Carey Chemicals by playing the stock market. So, her only inheritance is this poisoned chalice that would be easy to sell while there is still time. But Davina refuses to accept fate and takes over the reins of her father's business in order to give hope to all those her husband has betrayed, flouted, abandoned... And to give meaning to her own life. It is then that fate places a businessman on her path whose mission is to buy Carey Chemicals. A man who unsettles her. His piercing blue eyes trouble her, worry her, awaken her fantasies. There is in him a kind of hunger, an energy, a pent-up fury that makes her shiver with curiosity, with desire. With fear too. Because, even if she doesn't know it yet, this man who fascinates her is also her worst enemy... EAN : 9782280093767 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The strange and comical journey of my mother into amnesia - Michel Mompontet - book Summary : " My mother (89 years old) is not losing her mind. She just lets it wander further and further away, to strange lands, often disturbing, threatening, but sometimes wonderfully poetic. Precious nuggets in her debacle that amuse and enchant us as much as she does me ." This is how Michel Mompontet began writing "The Journey into Amnesia," for himself alone and so as not to lose anything of Geneviève's final moments. From his notes, he created a rare book that speaks to each of us. Can we retain time and memories that evaporate? Is love an antidote to memory pathologies? What remains when our brain "flees like a balloon in the azure," when "our mind is crossed by drafts"? Michel Mompontet's story is charged with emotion but it is not sad. He delivers a magnificent filial story and an unforgettable portrait of a woman. Geneviève, a solid Gascon who has lost none of her sense of humor, fights against the evil that is eating away at her with astonishing resources, and often hilarious energy. Her son, Michel, and his allies (devoted nurses, humane doctors, compassionate neighbors but also garden trees, butterflies, stars) strive to find solutions, invent incredible stratagems to counter his main enemy (the formidable Alzheimer's) as well as a cohort of other adversaries (greedy insurers, vindictive aunt, ghosts and unspoken family secrets). So while he believes he has only returned to the Landes village of his childhood to save his mother, it is also with his own past and its shadowy areas that he will reconnect. EAN : 9782709660563 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dixie - Julien Green - book Summary : The South... In Savannah as in Charleston, it's roses at Christmas, houses with white columns, elegant women strolling under the foliage of giant oaks or avenues of magnolias bursting with pale flowers, but it's also, this time, red suns on the battlefields and thunderstorms in the night. Despite the time, 1862, and the war, the Civil War, Elizabeth is a young woman for all times, independent and in love. Twice widowed, one could even say three, she dreams of happiness, both physical and emotional. For young people, she represents the eternal feminine. Around her, the war becomes bloodier. At twenty-eight, ignoring conventions and prejudices, she will rediscover love in a simple soldier. Many other characters enliven this fresco where the laughter of life mixes with the tears of History, but it is the children who finally emerge in the foreground with Miss Llewelyn, the Welsh quartermaster, the only one who understands them and knows how to explain to them what they sense: victory must not hide the future. And Dixie , the song of the South, floats over this world like a cry of love. "It was to rediscover what my father and mother told me that I wrote my novels about the South. Mother especially. I was twelve years old when she confessed to me that, despite all our victories, we had been beaten. The South had lost. This marked my entire youth, and I can still see Mother hiding her face. Curiously, in my book, the children are nine, ten, eleven years old, the age when I still believed in my country as victorious..." JG Distant Countries and Southern Stars, the two previous novels that Julien Green devoted to the South, have just been reissued in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (volume VII of the author's Complete Works). EAN : 9782213593784 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Doves of the Sun King - Volume 3 - Charlotte, The Rebel - Anne-Marie Desplat-Duc - book Summary : Four young girls dream of adventure and success. Raised at the gates of Versailles, these Doves of the Sun King fly toward their destiny. Charlotte decides to run away from Saint-Cyr and leave behind the orderly existence that doesn't suit her. A new life awaits her at the court of Versailles, a life of celebration, freedom, and joy. However, a discovery disrupts her happiness: her fiancé, François, has disappeared. Charlotte won't admit defeat. She's ready to do anything to find him! EAN : 9782081631793 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Perpetual Euphoria - Essay on the Duty of Happiness - Pascal Bruckner - book Summary : "A new collective narcotic is invading Western societies: the cult of happiness. Be happy! A terrible commandment that is all the more difficult to escape because it claims to be good for us. How do we know if we are happy? And what do we say to those who pitifully admit: I can't do it? Should we refer them to these well-being therapies, such as Buddhism, consumerism, and other techniques of bliss? What about our relationship with pain in a world where sex and health have become our despots? I call the duty of happiness this ideology that pushes us to evaluate everything from the angle of pleasure and unpleasantness, this assignment to euphoria that rejects into opprobrium or discomfort those who do not subscribe to it. Perversion of the most beautiful idea there is: the possibility granted to each person to control their destiny and improve their existence. It is then misfortune and suffering that are outlawed, at the risk, by being passed over in silence, of resurfacing where they were not expected. Our era tells a strange fable: that of a society devoted to hedonism, in which everything becomes irritation and torture. How could the subversive belief of the Enlightenment, which offered men this right to happiness, previously reserved for the Christian paradise, have been transformed into dogma? Such is the adventure that we retrace here." EAN : 9782246582212 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : First assessment after the apocalypse - Frédéric Beigbeder - book Summary : The apocalypse, would it be digital publishing, or as in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the temperature at which paper ignites and burns? Frédéric Beigbeder saves here from the fire all the books, to be precise the 100 works, that he wishes to preserve in the twenty-first century, in the form of an intimate hit parade of 100 to 1. It is therefore a totally personal ranking, egotistic, joyful, unexpected, sometimes classic (André Gide, Fitzgerald, Paul-Jean Toulet, Salinger and other greats), often surprising (Patrick Besson, Bret Easton Ellis, Régis Jauffret, Simon Liberati, Gabriel Matzneff, other night owls, other troublemakers). It is rare to establish the panorama of a literature in the process of being made, of improving itself, of inventing itself. With this manifesto, it is the bookish Beigbeder that we discover, at the same time as an autobiography in fragments, a self-portrait as a reader. "If I write, it is thanks to these pieces of papyrus where a soul mate was always hidden. In any case, it is towards these hundred precious objects that one must feel gratitude or resentment." EAN : 9782246777113 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Art of Happiness - Howard CUTLER, Dalai Lama - book Summary : Couples, health, relationships between friends: for the first time, the Dalai Lama talks to us about what makes us happy in our daily lives. Ask the Dalai Lama if he is happy, and he will answer "yes" without hesitation, because according to him, happiness is the goal of our entire existence. This is what he explains in this The art of happiness, a surprising blend of wisdom dating back thousands of years, common sense, reflections and concrete advice that we can all apply. Throughout these conversations, the Dalai Lama shows us how to overcome anxiety, insecurity, anger, and discouragement, and he explores our daily lives to teach us how to overcome life's obstacles by tapping into our inner source of peace. EAN : 9782221089378 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Journal of a Body - Daniel Pennac - book Summary : Wednesday, November 18, 1936 I want to write my body's diary because everyone is talking about something else. (13 years, 1 month, 8 days) Thursday, January 10, 1974 If I were to make this diary public, I would dedicate it first to women. In return, I would like to read the diary that a woman would have kept of her body. Just to lift a corner of the mystery. What does the mystery consist of? For example, in the fact that a man knows nothing about what a woman feels about the size and weight of her breasts, and that women know nothing about what men feel about the size of their genitals. (50 years and 3 months) Monday, July 26, 2010 We are, to the end, the child of our body. A disconcerted child. (86 years, 9 months, 16 days) From the age of 13 to 87, the age of his death, the narrator kept a diary of his body. We, who sometimes feel so alone in our own, are gradually discovering that this secret garden is a shared territory. Everything we kept quiet about is there, in black and white, and what used to scare us so much often becomes a source of laughter. EAN : 9782070124855 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Anna and Mister God - Fynn - book Summary : The story Fynn tells today happened about thirty years ago. Fynn was nineteen, prowling the docklands of London's East End one foggy November evening, and he discovered, sitting on a step, a filthy, bruised, and terrified little girl. He took her home and entrusted her to her mother, a vigorous Irish woman who welcomed anyone her children brought her. Anna's chief interest in life was her familiarity with God. "Mister God." She understood the meaning of life and the significance of love. By six, she was a theologian, mathematician, philosopher, poet, and gardener. At seven, she died in an accident, her beautiful face crossed by a small grimace, and she said, "Fynn, I bet Mister God will let me into heaven because of this." Fynn evokes this whole story by saying of himself: "My name is Fynn. Well, it's not my real name, but what does it matter? All my friends call me Fynn, it's stuck with me... I'm six foot two, I weigh 200 pounds, I love gymnastics, my mother is Irish and my father is Welsh... My favorite pastime? Walking around the docks at night in the fog." This strange story, told by a strange witness, whose existence the preface writer assures us, resembles a fairy tale: Alice in Dockland or Anna Crusoe in the Island of the Absolute. But no, it's a true story, and that's why it seems incredible. EAN : 9782020043700 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Julia - Jean-Marc Soyez - book Summary : On the estate, Julia decides, and her son-in-law, Jean-Jean, executes. Ill, Julia does everything she can to facilitate her succession and encourages Jean-Jean to remarry. He does so with Annie, a pretty brunette with a strong character. Despite the war, this family does not suffer too much from the German occupation, until the day Jean-Jean finds himself in the Resistance. The author: Journalist and author of around fifty books, some of which were bestsellers, Jean-Marc Soyez has always invented stories and tales. Several of his stories, notably The Wolf Tile, have been successfully adapted for the screen. EAN : 9782844946195 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Secret Thoughts - David Lodge - book Summary : Set within the legendary University of Gloucester, two characters engage in the complex game of seduction: Ralph Messenger, a cognitive scientist, and Helen Reed, a novelist weakened by her recent widowhood. Through a series of events and twists and turns, the characters brilliantly discover that we are often wrong about ourselves and almost always wrong about others. EAN : 9782743608767 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The First Summer - Anne Percin - book Summary : Two sisters meet one late summer in Haute-Saône to empty their deceased grandparents' house. For a long time, Catherine, the youngest, has kept her distance from this village... Yet, every street corner or face she encounters brings back specific and painful memories. Her older sister has started a family, she hasn't. Having become a bookseller, she is a solitary woman. Even as a teenager, she spent her hours in books. But for what she experienced here, the summer she was sixteen, the summer she read "Le Grand Meaulnes," "there were no words. There never were, neither before nor after. It's something that doesn't resemble anything written." Fifteen years have passed since then, and no one has ever known what secret has been tormenting her all this time, the tragedy she was perhaps EAN : 9782812602498 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Girl with Vodka - Delphine de Malherbe - book Summary : Alcohol addiction, passion... Alice Duval advances step by step, like a tightrope walker. Alice is beautiful. In Paris, the world smiles at her. But suddenly, for some mysterious reason, she abandons her life and moves to Avignon. In the capital of theater, she drops the mask before a strange man who attracts her. Faced with him, she falters and reveals herself to be the victim of a taboo disease among a growing number of young women: alcohol. Will passionate love cure her of her vodka addiction? Step by step, like a fragile tightrope walker, she advances hesitantly between wisdom and the abyss, between the intoxication of life and the vertigo of love. Delphine de Malherbe's strength lies in transforming the taboo of female alcoholism into a powerful and beautiful novel, dedicated to Romy Schneider and Amy Winehouse in particular... and to women in general. EAN : 9782259218696 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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