Title: Anna's Wedding - Nathacha Appanah - book
Summary :
Today I am marrying my daughter off, I will put aside my thoughts of a crazy old woman, I will be as she likes me to be: dignified, well-groomed, well-made up, smiling, ready for conversations that I will follow with feigned enthusiasm and which will leave me with no memory, ready to flit from guest to guest, the perfect mother that I will be today. " During Anna's wedding, her mother remembers. Of the young woman she was, so different from her daughter, of her eighteen years, of her brief and passionate affair with Matthew whom she met in London, of her return to Paris, alone and pregnant. Throughout this day, memories resurface accompanied by regrets, hopes and desires; because she still has desires, this single woman who is marrying off her daughter.