From the internationally bestselling author of Bonjour Tristesse
comes the surprise publication of a novel she never finished--and a
story that evokes her greatest works.
French literary star Françoise Sagan was just eighteen when she
published her first bestseller, Bonjour Tristesse, in 1954. Decades
later, this short novel surfaced: an unfinished manuscript that wittily
dissects the romantic lives of its bourgeois characters.
The glamorous Marie-Laure never expected her wealthy older husband to
survive a devastating car accident that left him in a fragile mental and
physical condition. But three years later, Ludovic Cresson returns home
to the family estate and finds himself in the throes of a tumultuous
marriage.
Overseeing this tense dynamic is Henri, the patriarch, who wants to see
his son recover but detests various members of his own family. When
Marie-Laure's mother visits the estate, the family equilibrium falters
spectacularly. As Ludovic's virility returns, he cannot resist the
charms of his mother-in-law--and neither can his father.
The story ends abruptly, but it offers a vivid, if open ended, look into
some of Sagan's final undiscovered characters.
