Title : Women's Hour - Adèle Bréau - book
2023 Press House Prize
Paris, 1967. On the cusp of her fifties, Menie, a middle-class mother, is recruited by RTL radio, which has decided to update its programming. Her role? To get listeners talking.
In just a few weeks, it's a tidal wave. Women from all over France confide in "the lady of the heart." Soon, at nap time, millions will be following the show with passion. Among them, Mireille and her sister Suzanne, who discover that they too can control their destiny.
As for Menie's life, torn between the whirlwind of a society liberated by May 68 and the torments inflicted on her, it is completely turned upside down.
Fifty years later, Esther, a documentary filmmaker struggling to rebuild her life, will delve back into those not-so-distant years when the fate of French women seems like another age.
With this new novel, driven by the figure of Menie Grégoire, her grandmother, Adèle Bréau unites the destinies of women who, despite their differences, reach out to one another. Love, motherhood, rights, sisterhood... the author explores the advances, paradoxes, and regressions of the female condition over five decades, bringing them into resonance in a resolutely romantic fresco.
Finalist for the 2023 Maison de la Presse Prize
"We at RTL obviously couldn't miss Adèle Bréau's book, which I insist on, is much more than a biography, a portrait of her grandmother Menie Grégoire, it's a novel in the full sense of the term with a beautiful gallery of characters and narrative bridges between the Menie years and today." Bernant Lehut, RTL
"Through four inspiring heroines from yesterday and today, the author, granddaughter of Menie Grégoire, continues to explore the bonds of sisterhood in this beautiful novel about women's struggles. Fascinating from start to finish." Femina Version
“Amazing.” The Parisian
“The portrait of a journalist and a liberating era.” Point of View
“A touching and topical novel.” SHE
“A gripping novel.” Gala
“A captivating fiction that questions the place of women in society.” Marie Claire
“Vibrant with passion and sensitivity.” Paris Match
“A wonderful novel to read and have others read!” TV Z
“ A novel that gives pride of place to intergenerational solidarity. » Books Weekly
"Adèle Bréau sheds new light on the struggle our mothers and grandmothers had to wage to win their freedom, sometimes not without pain. It is extremely eloquent." France 3
“A story full of love and admiration” The Obs
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EAN : 9782709669450
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