Title: The House of the Cape - Françoise Bourdon - book
Summary :
Arcachon, 1849. Léonie struggles step by step to offer her children a better life than her own. In 1862, Margot, her youngest daughter, is brimming with desire for happiness and rejects a predetermined existence of misery and toil. Charlotte, Margot's illegitimate child, becomes a photographer and gives birth to Dorothée, one of the first female aviators. Finally, there is Violette, the youngest, who will join the Resistance.
From mother to daughter, in this house in Cape Town, which will be a refuge for each of them, fierce women forge their destinies with a particular ardor, full of tumult and turmoil. And in the folds of a History that they successively traverse and permeate, they gain one by one what their era would like to deny them.
"Beautiful portraits of women united by their love of their region." Our Time
