Célia Houdart Turns Her Grandparents' Wartime Love Letters Into a Novel
In "Notre-Dame-des-Anges," the French writer reconstructs a clandestine affair her grandparents carried on before and during the Second World War, drawing on their correspondence.
Télérama has reviewed "Notre-Dame-des-Anges," a new novel by Célia Houdart built from an unusual private archive: letters exchanged by her own grandparents during a secret love affair that began before the Second World War and continued through it.
According to Télérama, Houdart works from this epistolary material to reconstruct the clandestine relationship, producing what the outlet describes as a book written with nuance and restraint.
The novel arrives as part of this year's rentrée littéraire. No publisher, page count or release date beyond the review itself is given in the source material.
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