In Auvergne, at the beginning of the 20th century, Alexandrine passionately runs her confectionery business, Les Délices du Velay, single-handedly. One day, her eldest daughter, Marie, decides to go in search of her real father, a priest...

In Auvergne, at the beginning of the 20th century. The proud Alexandrine masterfully runs her thriving candied fruit business, Délices du Velay. She has never been able to show tenderness to her daughters: Marie, the eldest, Madeleine, and Marguerite. For mysterious reasons, Marie was raised in the countryside, away from her family. Yet, it is she, a simple worker, who will take over the reins of the company. On her deathbed, her mother confesses her incredible secret: Marie was born in 1917 from an affair with a priest; she then tries to find him...
Like a tribute, this novel evokes in the most beautiful way women and their desires, at a time when it was considered good form to follow rigorous tradition. Alexandrian Delights all the charms of the writing of its author, the "patriarch of Auvergne letters" emanate.