A Sunday in Ville-d'Avray

Description

It's a Sunday in early September and a woman is going to visit her sister in the suburbs outside Paris. She remembers their childhood, when they had 'tender hearts and lots of imagination' and a shared infatuation with Mr Rochester. They reminisce about their past and Claire Marie tells her sister about an encounter that took place over ten years earlier. Set against the backdrop of the Corot ponds, Fausses-Reposes forest, and the footbridge above the Sevres-Ville-d'Avray station, this haunting novel explores half-shared truths and desires that can never be fully expressed.

Dominique Barberis is a French novelist. She teaches at the Sorbonne, specialising in writing workshops. Her first book, La Ville, was published by Arlea in 1996. Eight further books have been published by Gallimard. Les Kangourous was adapted for film by Anne Fontaine under the title Entreses mains. Quelque chose a cacher won the Prix des Deux Magots and the Prix de la Ville de Nantes in 2008. In 2018, her novel L'Annee de l'education sentimentale was awarded the Prix Jean-Freustie / Fondation de France.