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Sous les apparences se cachent parfois des histoires intimes sordides.
Lors d’un déjeuner familial qui réunit la matriarche, ses 4 enfants et leurs conjoints, ainsi que leurs propres enfants, chacun tente de paraitre au mieux. Mais en réalité tous cachent des secrets, des remords, des traumatismes.
Entremêlant le passé et le présent, l’auteur nous emmène dans l’histoire de chacun, révélant progressivement les fêlures et brisant les façades bien lisse des protagonistes.
Concentré d'une classe sociale de la réussite, mais à quel prix ...
Le narrateur, journaliste dans un magasine d’art de vivre, couvre la Convention internationale de la rose en Australie. Avec une jeune journaliste allemande, il y fait la rencontre de sa présidente, May de Caux. A la fois intrigués et fascinés par la personnalité de cette femme, les deux journalistes décident de sortir de leur zone de confort et d’enquêter plus avant sur le passé de May de Caux. Car cette femme, charmante et discrète, garde pour elle son passé de résistante et de déportée.
Comment la convaincre de témoigner, autant sur la survie dans les camps que de l’après, la difficile reconstruction d’un corps qui a subi le pire …
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“Of course Shara gave her this instead of an explanation. Of course she cast herself as the main character of her own personal John Green novel.”
After Red, White and Royal Blue and One Lost Stop, Casey McQuinston tries themselves into their first YA novel and it's a complete success !
Chloe Green goes looking after her highschool nemesis Shara Wheeler, after she mysteriously disappeared before graduation. For this, she has to team up with Rory, Shara's neighbor, and Smith, Shara's ex-boyfriend, who like her, got curious pink letters addressed to them. Follow unlikely alliances, growing feelings, and a lot of perfumed puzzles to solve.
I Kissed Shara Wheeler is a funny and uplifting coming of age story with complex and messy teenagers, academic rivals to lovers and surprising and moving friendships. The story itself takes place in the south of the US, in a small town in the Bible Belt, where it can be hard to be queer and out. But the force of McQuinston's novel is that they show with a lot of nuance how queer youth succeed in growing around it, hopeful and proud.
It's the perfect choice if you're looking for queer positivity, quirky banter between friends and teenage complex feelings about themselves !
“Of course Shara gave her this instead of an explanation. Of course she cast herself as the main character of her own personal John Green novel.”
After Red, White and Royal Blue and One Lost Stop, Casey McQuinston tries themselves into their first YA novel and it's a complete success !
Chloe Green goes looking after her highschool nemesis Shara Wheeler, after she mysteriously disappeared before graduation. For this, she has to team up with Rory, Shara's neighbor, and Smith, Shara's ex-boyfriend, who like her, got curious pink letters addressed to them. Follow unlikely alliances, growing feelings, and a lot of perfumed puzzles to solve.
I Kissed Shara Wheeler is a funny and uplifting coming of age story with complex and messy teenagers, academic rivals to lovers and surprising and moving friendships. The story itself takes place in the south of the US, in a small town in the Bible Belt, where it can be hard to be queer and out. But the force of McQuinston's novel is that they show with a lot of nuance how queer youth succeed in growing around it, hopeful and proud.
It's the perfect choice if you're looking for queer positivity, quirky banter between friends and teenage complex feelings about themselves !
“Of course Shara would cast herself as the main character of her own personal John Green novel.”
After Red, White and Royal Blue and One Lost Stop, Casey McQuinston tries themselves into their first YA novel and it's a complete success !
Chloe Green goes looking after her highschool nemesis Shara Wheeler, after she mysteriously disappeared before graduation. For this, she has to team up with Rory, Shara's neighbor, and Smith, Shara's ex-boyfriend, who like her, got curious pink letters addressed to them. Follow unlikely alliances, growing feelings, and a lot of perfumed puzzles to solve.
I Kissed Shara Wheeler is a funny and uplifting coming of age story with complex and messy teenagers, academic rivals to lovers and surprising and moving friendships. The story itself takes place in the south of the US, in a small town in the Bible Belt, where it can be hard to be queer and out. But the force of McQuinston's novel is that they show with a lot of nuance how queer youth succeed in growing around it, hopeful and proud.
It's the perfect choice if you're looking for queer positivity, quirky banter between friends and teenage complex feelings about themselves !