RETIENS MA NUIT

Through the prism of a passionate affair between two bourgeois provincials in their 60s, the sweetly cruel story of a generation – the lost children of the Baby Boom.

This is the story of a youthful affair between two aging lovers. François and Hélène are both in their sixties. They're both married and have children, a senior-discount card and parents in either eldercare or the ground.

Indolent, absent-minded François is a doctor with an office in a village by the Loire River, with a view of Chaumont Castle, and a blue-blood spouse named Claire.

Bored Hélène, the disappointed wife of a nouveau-riche ad man, is the mother of a social-climbing 40-something on the verge of his first divorce.

Love – the real thing – takes them both by surprise. At first, they have a hard time believing it's true. They dedicate their lives, body and soul, to this burning passion whose secrecy both protects and imprisons them. The tight little social circle of their provincial town will carry them far away, with both crazy happiness and deep sadness. This is the sweetly cruel story of a generation – the lost children of the Baby Boom.

This is the miraculous and truthful tale of the search for eternal youth.

This is a timeless love story in a romantic country setting that is perfect for pinnacles of passion.

This is a very French tale, told with the gently mischievous plume of an expert in nostalgia.

Author of over 40 books – fiction, non-fiction and poetry – that have earned him many accolades, denis tillinac's work includes Je nous revois (I Can Still See Us Gallimard, 2006, Folio, 2008), Le Dictionnaire amoureux de la France (A France Lover's Dictionary, Plon, 2008) and La nuit étoilée (The Starry Night, Plon, 2013).