Comme si de rien n'était, Barbara Abel: livre thriller nouveauté 2024 | Barbara Abel

Comme si de rien n'était, Barbara Abel: livre thriller nouveauté 2024

EAN : 9782385770433

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 368

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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Novelty

As if nothing had happened

Barbara Abel

Collection : Récamier Noir

Release date : 11/04/2024

We can all reassure ourselves by making little arrangements with life, with love, with past mistakes.
But everything has to be paid for one day.
A hundredfold.
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Adèle, mother of an 8-year-old boy and interior designer, looks at, listens to and analyzes everything around her. Because in Adèle's life, everything is always in its place. She reigns over her life, negotiating with destiny, orchestrating chance. This chance that she has learned to tame and which, she doesn't... Adèle, mother of an 8-year-old boy and interior designer, looks at, listens to and analyzes everything around her. Because in Adèle's life, everything is always in its place. She reigns over her life, negotiating with destiny, orchestrating chance. This chance that she has learned to tame and which, she doesn't yet know, is about to blow up in her face. At the end of her son's music class, she meets her new music theory teacher, Hugues Lionel. Their eyes meet. Hugues is confused; he recognizes Adèle, even though he calls her Marie. As for Adèle, she doesn't recognize him at all, and doesn't hide her discomfort at the teacher's insistence. Unlike Adèle, nothing in Hugues' life is under control, and he wonders when the universe will grant him a little respite. Over the past three years, he's suffered a series of setbacks: the loss of his previous job, a separation, the news of his father's illness... And now, this woman. A woman he thought he'd never see again. Why does she pretend not to recognize him? Has she forgotten? What is she hiding ?

Barbara Abel's novels are implacable. With disconcerting simplicity, she holds up a mirror to her readers, reminding them of the worst of the human soul, of all that humans are capable of. Devoid of special effects, her novels always feature "ordinary" people, people like you and me, with no great history, for whom destiny tips into tragedy through a simple encounter, a trial, a second of inattention... in this sense, she appeals to our worst fears. And the reader shudders as he or she realizes that no one is safe from making a faux pas; it doesn't just happen to others.

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EAN : 9782385770433

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 368

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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