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EAN : 9782258196025

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Pages : 448

Size : 150 x 210 mm

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Chez Scarlette

Hervé Bellec

Release date : 23/09/2021

On an island off the cost of Brittany, the destinies of five women bearing the brunt of the autumn storms intersect under the wry, nostalgic, funny and disenchanted gaze of the Breton writer, winner of the Prix de la Ville de Vannes 2020.

We are in the dark month of November, miz Du in Breton, on an island that lies an hour off the Brittany coast. Scarlette, the owner of the Bar de la Falaise, lives there simply because that is where she was born, and her bistrot is the epicentre of the... We are in the dark month of November, miz Du in Breton, on an island that lies an hour off the Brittany coast. Scarlette, the owner of the Bar de la Falaise, lives there simply because that is where she was born, and her bistrot is the epicentre of the island. Solange the Parisian has come here to seek refuge from a complicated past and a painful future. Perhaps the young policewoman Fanny is also here to take stock of her life. Marina, the island’s enigmatic doctor, treats the ailments of the locals as best she can. Scarlette’s daughter Morgane is in Rennes far from her native island, bored with her studies and desperate to return home. And then the storm is unleashed, the cliffs collapse, the sea walls are breached, the trees flattened, and the high tides threaten to submerge the island as they did once upon a time in an ancient legend. The island is now completely cut off but the women come together to support each other, dancing and singing around the old jukebox with champagne in hand as if to spite fate. Pierrot la Lanterne, the retired lighthouse keeper, and Baptiste the trumpeter observe them quietly from the wings with a mixture of fascination and amusement.

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EAN : 9782258196025

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Pages : 448

Size : 150 x 210 mm

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