Title: In the Land of Kangaroos - Gilles Paris - book
Summary :
Nine-year-old Simon lives with his father Paul, a writer, and his mother Carole, a businesswoman who spends her life in Australia. The day Paul is hospitalized for depression, Simon's daily life is turned upside down. Taken in by Lola, his whimsical grandmother, he also meets the evanescent Lily, an autistic child with violet eyes. Through the dreams he invents, Simon will try to put words to his father's illness and find bearings in this universe whose meaning eludes him.
