Sophie Divry maps a family holiday heading for disaster
A new novel by the French writer follows a blended family whose Toussaint break together is undone by unspoken tensions, according to a review in Le Courrier.
Le Courrier has published a review of a new novel by Sophie Divry, describing it as the chronicle of a fiasco announced from the start.
The book follows a blended family: Xavier has a young son the narrator judges badly brought up, and Isabelle a teenage daughter. Around questions of household order and discipline, or their absence, the two adults and children carry tensions and things left unsaid, according to the Swiss paper.
For Isabelle, the Toussaint holiday together is meant to be a chance to mend the cracks in the new family unit, Le Courrier reports. The review does not spell out how, or whether, that attempt succeeds, but its title alone signals that the outcome is bleak.
No publisher, release date or further plot detail is given in the source consulted by this desk.
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