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EAN : 9782258161955
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 416
Size : 140 x 225 mm
For Lauren's love

Collection : Terres de France
Release date : 17/01/2019
Moving between Normandy and Louisiana and spanning two eras, this is a comparative portrait of two bold women in strange lands. One is American and is tracing her family tree to identify her maternal grandmother, a war bride who gave up everything for love.
2000. Embarking on a search for her Normandy grandmother, Gemma, a young New Yorker, was not intending to imperil her thrusting career as a businesswoman. But having fallen in love with Normandy, and with Honfleur in particular, she sets out to reconstruct all the stages in the troubled but romantic... 2000. Embarking on a search for her Normandy grandmother, Gemma, a young New Yorker, was not intending to imperil her thrusting career as a businesswoman. But having fallen in love with Normandy, and with Honfleur in particular, she sets out to reconstruct all the stages in the troubled but romantic life of her grandmother and, by talking to friends and people who knew her at the time, to understand what prompted Philippine to abandon her daughter Lauren.

Nearly fifty years earlier, Philippine left her family and her native Normandy for a life of adventure with her handsome American GI, Ethan. She pitches up at home of her partner’s family in Louisiana. Married and pregnant, a new life is opening up for her which is full of promise. The Reeds own a huge cotton plantation whose glory days pre-date the American Civil War, but her adopted Cajun family extend her a warm welcome.

It is Ethan himself who is the source of betrayal and strife, as he gradually distances himself from Lauren despite the birth of their child…
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EAN : 9782258161955
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 416
Size : 140 x 225 mm
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