Description
Book SynopsisThe story of a woman''s life, from childhood to death, somewhere in provincial France, from the 1950s to just shy of 2025.
She has doting parents, does well at school, finds a loving husband after one abortive attempt at passion, buys a big house with a moonlit terrace, makes decent money, has children, changes jobs, retires, grows old and dies. All in the comfort that the middle-classes have grown accustomed to.
But she''s bored.
She takes up all sorts of outlets to try to make something happen in her life: adultery, charity work, esotericism, manic house-cleaning, motherhood and various hobbies - each one abandoned faster than the last. But no matter what she does, her life remains unfocussed and unfulfilled. Nothing truly satisfies her, because deep down - just like the town where she lives - the landscape is non-descript, flat, horizontal.
Sophie Divry dramatises the philosophical conflict between freedom and comfort that marks women''s lives in a
Trade Review
With its winks and nods to Flaubert's Madame Bovary, this is one of the most exciting finds of the season * Le Monde *
The most paradoxical novel of the season: depressing, even desperately so, but at the same time, profoundly exalting, gentle and fluid * L’Hebdo *
One can't help thinking of Houellebecq when talking about Madame Bovary of the Suburbs * Elle *
