Winter Flowers
Translated from French by Adriana Hunter.
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- Paperback published on 07/10/2021
- Page count: 180 pages
- ISBN: 9781908670670
Synopsis
On a cold October night in 1918, Toussaint Caillet returns to his family in their meagre apartment in the rundown Belleville district of Paris. His wife, Jeanne, and their young daughter Leonie have been awaiting his return; but the man who arrives at their door is unrecognisable from the one who left four years earlier. Shrouded in silence, his unfamiliar presence in their home becomes almost unbearable. After years spent focusing on survival, with the promise of peace now in sight, the family must attempt to stitch a new life from the tatters of what they had before.
About the author
Born in Paris in 1965, Angélique Villeneuve lived in Sweden and India before returning to her native France. The author of eight novels, she has also written numerous children’s books. Les Fleurs d’hiver, which was published by Editions Phébus in 2014, won four literary prizes: the 2014 Prix Millepages, the 2015 Prix La Passerelle and Prix de la Ville de Rambouillet, and the 2016 Prix du Livre de Caractère de Quintin. Villeneuve’s novel Maria, published by Grasset Editions in 2018, won the SGDL Grand Prix for fiction. Her most recent work, La Belle Lumière, a fictional account of the life of Helen Keller’s mother, was published by Editions Le Passage in 2020.Winter Flowers is the first of her books to be translated into English.
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