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Marie goes to Paris as an au pair at the end of the 1980s, a decade in which terrorist attacks rudely interrupt the city's joie de vivre. She tries to put down roots in Parisian life and to find her place in an upper-class French family whose father has an odd psychic condition. A darker story comes before Paris: as a young woman studying photography in the Netherlands she fell under the sway of Flo, a manipulative teacher. Decades later, after the attacks of November 2015, she tries to piece her own history together.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

254 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

France, Netherlands

First published

2023 by Ambo|Anthos

Author's age

55 when first published

ISBN

9789026352065 (original)

9780143138464 (Penguin Books, United States)