Title: May in Autumn - Chantal Creusot - book
Summary :
Through the follies of adolescence, the endless game of engagements and adulteries, the small and large disasters of bourgeois marriage, the happy or tragic destinies of the women who inhabit this nested novel are intertwined, constructed by dazzling leaps and bounds as if to capture everything in the desperate call of desire, while happiness slips away like a childhood dream. It all begins with the innocent Marie Granville, servant on a rich farm in the Cotentin during and after the Second World War. The admirable portrait of this ingénue opens the ball of a captivating and sensitive grand fresco.
