The Little French Bistro - a novel by Nina George
This has to be my 2019's self aware book. That's how I felt while reading the protagonist Marianne's journey of escape to finding herself.
“Death is not free. Its price is life.”
The book starts with Marianne, a sixty year old standing at the banks of Siene, jumping in to die after 40 years of loveless marriage. She is saved by an onlooker and then she decides to go to Brittany and find another suitable moment to die. There is a whole new world of people there who change the course of her life and make her question the motive to die. The funny chef Jean Remy at the bistro who pines after the Laurine the waitress. The aged couple Pascale and Emile who through their eccentricities show Marianne that life doesn't have to be perfect and never is.
A fun host of other characters who have little pocketful of stories of their own fills up this book and balance out the darkness of Marianne's mind. A failing marriage,inattentive partner and feeling of self pity are matters of concern for a person enough to fall into depression. These issues are subtly portrayed through her voice as well as through others in this novel.
“I don't know why we women believe that sacrificing our desires makes us more attractive to men. What on earth are we thinking? That someone who goes without her wishes deserves to be loved more than she who follows her dreams?”
Of course there is a good looking guy for her right there in Brittany and who else could he be
but a painter. I wish Yann as a character and her light-through-the-crack was developed more and here is where the book becomes sort of a chick flick, a moony romantic story. However, I'm glad the focus on issues faced by women, importance of self and bits about Brittany is all well written.
I've already got Nina George's The Little Paris Bookshop and I'm looking forward to reading that.
Check out my Bookstagram -https://www.instagram.com/treezbooks/?hl=en
Images from - TripSavvy and TheLocalFrance
This has to be my 2019's self aware book. That's how I felt while reading the protagonist Marianne's journey of escape to finding herself.
“Death is not free. Its price is life.”
The book starts with Marianne, a sixty year old standing at the banks of Siene, jumping in to die after 40 years of loveless marriage. She is saved by an onlooker and then she decides to go to Brittany and find another suitable moment to die. There is a whole new world of people there who change the course of her life and make her question the motive to die. The funny chef Jean Remy at the bistro who pines after the Laurine the waitress. The aged couple Pascale and Emile who through their eccentricities show Marianne that life doesn't have to be perfect and never is.
Coast of Brittany
A fun host of other characters who have little pocketful of stories of their own fills up this book and balance out the darkness of Marianne's mind. A failing marriage,inattentive partner and feeling of self pity are matters of concern for a person enough to fall into depression. These issues are subtly portrayed through her voice as well as through others in this novel.
“I don't know why we women believe that sacrificing our desires makes us more attractive to men. What on earth are we thinking? That someone who goes without her wishes deserves to be loved more than she who follows her dreams?”
Of course there is a good looking guy for her right there in Brittany and who else could he be
but a painter. I wish Yann as a character and her light-through-the-crack was developed more and here is where the book becomes sort of a chick flick, a moony romantic story. However, I'm glad the focus on issues faced by women, importance of self and bits about Brittany is all well written.
A Brittany village
I've already got Nina George's The Little Paris Bookshop and I'm looking forward to reading that.
Check out my Bookstagram -https://www.instagram.com/treezbooks/?hl=en
Images from - TripSavvy and TheLocalFrance
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