The Lovers - Softcover

Alice Ferney

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 190380941X ISBN 13: 9781903809419

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2002

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Pauline is young and coquettish. She is also happily married to Marc and has a child. Gilles, kind and self-confident, is twenty years older and a recent divorcee. After he watches Pauline one morning, he asks to meet her. In spite of herself, Pauline agrees. Alice Ferney unfolds the next stages of the seduction in forensic detail and with devastating lucidity. As Pauline faces the possibility of an affair, she is thrown into confusion. Is she simply feeling flattered because she is desired? Is she indulging in a fantasy version of love? Or could she have truly fallen for a stranger? We also eavesdrop on the lives of the people around Pauline and Gilles, from Pauline's adoring and unsuspecting husband, to Max and Eve's disintegrating marriage, to Penelope and her relationship with a man older than her father, and Laura, who desperately wants a child. Together, their stories make up a complete picture of the changing degrees of love.

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About the Author:

Alice Ferney lives in Paris. This is her fourth novel.

Review:

Young, coquettish Pauline is happily married to Marc and has a child. Gilles, 20 years older and a divorcee asks to meet her and the next stages of the seduction are unfolded with devastating lucidity. Ferney also eavesdrops on the lives of the people around them and together their stories make up a complete picture of the changing degrees of love in an exquisitely rendered novel.

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