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- A good life / by Grimaldi, Virginie,1977-author.; Serle, Hildegarde,translator.; translation of:Grimaldi, Virginie,1977-Belle vie.English.;
Two sisters, Emma and Agathe, reminisce about their lives together, analyze their fraught relationship and consider reconciling when they must return together to Basque Country to empty out the home of their beloved grandmother.- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Decedents' estates; Families; Family secrets; Grandmothers; Interpersonal relations; Life change events; Reconciliation; Sisters; Vacation homes;
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- Forgotten on Sunday / by Perrin, Valérie,1967-author.; Serle, Hildegarde,translator.; translation of:Perrin, Valérie,1967-Oubliés du dimanche.English.;
Justine is 21 years old and has lived with her grandparents and cousin Jules since the death of her parents. She works as a carer at a retirement home and spends her days listening to her residents' stories. After bonding with Helene, an almost 100-year-old resident, the two women slowly reveal their stories to one another. Whilst Justine helps Helene to relive her memories of love and war, Helene encourages Justine to confront the secrets of her own past, and the loss she has buried deep within. One day, trouble arrives in the form of a mysterious phone call that shakes the retirement home to its core and uncovers a shocking revelation.- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Female friendship; Memory; Older women; Young women;
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- Three / by Perrin, Valérie,1967-author.; Serle, Hildegarde,translator.; translation of:Perrin, Valérie,1967-Trois.English.;
From the international bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers, a beautifully told and suspenseful story about the ties that bind us and the choices that make us who we are. 1986: Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and quickly become inseparable. They promise each other they will one day leave their provincial backwater, move to Paris, and never part. 2017: A car is pulled up from the bottom of the lake, a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist with an enigmatic past, reports on the case while also reflecting on the relationship between the three friends, who were unusually close when younger but now no longer speak. As Virginie moves closer to the surprising truth, relationships fray and others are formed. Valerie Perrin has an unerring gift for delving into life. In Three, she brings readers along with her through a sequence of heart-wrenching events and revelations that span three decades. Three tells a moving story of love and loss, hope and grief, friendship and adversity, and of time as an ineluctable agent of change.- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Best friends; Children; Conspiracies;
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