9/20/2023 0 Comments The reader summaries![]() ![]() Gone is the sense of Paris being a character, and the unique French ambience has been dropped. However – and there's that word again – this one did not quite gel in as friendly a fashion. They generally are likeable, and highly readable. I always relish a new novel from Antoine Laurain, and this is his latest that came out in French in January 2020, so the translation has been a prompt one. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from? And, however – despite all urging, the author of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in person, and in fact offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last email. ![]() As in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own way, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accident, and starts this book coming round from a coma. But there are several 'howevers' to that. ![]() The three people who work in the Readers' Room to sift through what is ninety nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash, and so it has proven. Violaine's publishing house has had a great success, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts. Summary: Laurain shows us the problems an anonymous hit novel has for a small group of publishers, but by trying something too far removed from his usual output may have caused some problems of his own. ![]()
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