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DescriptionVictorine is a dutiful housewife, respectable schoolteacher and mother in the Vendee in the 1900s, cooking the gigot for the family lunch, obeying her husband, walking the long beaches of the Atlantic with her children. But then an old childhood acquaintance turns up and her life is turned upside down forever. She falls passionately in love for the first time in her life. Author descriptionCatherine Texier was born and raised in France and now lives in New York City. She is the author of three novels and a memoir. She was co-editor of a literary magazine and a regular contributer to 'The New York Times' and has written for several other leading magazines. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award and of two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships. Her work has been translated into ten languages. |