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THE MARGOT AFFAIR
Set in contemporary Paris and centered on the hidden teenage daughter of an illicit affair between an actress and a politician, this is an intimate and dark novel of betrayal. It pokes at the edges of relationships - within families and female friendships, and between the bonds of mothers and daughters - from a new voice that Karen Russell calls "absolutely sensuous".
"There were so many of us, children of these double families who dreamed of the other side. That night, I fantasized about the separate spheres of our lives colliding..."
Margot's mother is a charismatic and prominent stage actress who has created a private, shimmering world of secrecy around their hidden family in their tiny Parisian apartment on the Left Bank. It is a carefully constructed house of cards that Margot decides to set tumbling. At the opening night of one of her mother's plays, Margot meets a powerful journalist with whom she shares their family secret.
When the front pages of the morning papers are emblazoned with news of the affair, and Margot finds herself drawn into the story of another marriage - that of the journalist and his beguiling wife Brigitte. Each of them want more from Margot than she is willing to give up. In just one stunning revelation, Margot discovers how her impulsive decision changed the contours of everyone's life around her in ways she could never have imagined.
In this simmering debut, Sanaë Lemoine exposes the seams between private and public faces, truth and deceit, love and persuasion. Insightful and moving, woven in sensuous prose, THE MARGOT AFFAIR explores razor-sharp turns between women - from the bone-deep bond between mothers and daughters to the devotion and betrayal of friendship - and the dangers of pushing beyond the boundaries of a life lived in the shadows.
Margot's mother is a charismatic and prominent stage actress who has created a private, shimmering world of secrecy around their hidden family in their tiny Parisian apartment on the Left Bank. It is a carefully constructed house of cards that Margot decides to set tumbling. At the opening night of one of her mother's plays, Margot meets a powerful journalist with whom she shares their family secret.
When the front pages of the morning papers are emblazoned with news of the affair, and Margot finds herself drawn into the story of another marriage - that of the journalist and his beguiling wife Brigitte. Each of them want more from Margot than she is willing to give up. In just one stunning revelation, Margot discovers how her impulsive decision changed the contours of everyone's life around her in ways she could never have imagined.
In this simmering debut, Sanaë Lemoine exposes the seams between private and public faces, truth and deceit, love and persuasion. Insightful and moving, woven in sensuous prose, THE MARGOT AFFAIR explores razor-sharp turns between women - from the bone-deep bond between mothers and daughters to the devotion and betrayal of friendship - and the dangers of pushing beyond the boundaries of a life lived in the shadows.
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Published 2020-06-16 by Hogarth |
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Published 2020-06-16 by Hogarth |