Janine Boissard

so. Pauline bicycles around town and feels free and less-free and more in contact with her family and less so, and falls enamoured of older men and tells family stories that link her to the past and turns her back rather resolutely on a version of the future that she dislikes.

I remember her sitting on a hill and watching the lights come on in the city - and speaking to a Famous Author, and being disappointed at his timid or trite inscription to her - and letting the numbers he penned on her show more arm (like some concentration-camp reversal) fade, slowly.

I'm still not as brave as Claire. show less

She realizes her husband is going to quit her, decides to fight for him, but to do that will "change" (to become more sexy). i loved the end, where, having him back, she wonders if that is what she wants finally

I did like it, but I was a bit disappointed because she writes a bit like an adolescent...

Je lui ai demandé : "Que veux-tu de moi ?" Du bout du doigt, très gravement, il a touché mon front, mon coeur, mon ventre : Tout, a-t-il dit. Je veux tout.»
C'est Séverine, 44 ans, qui parle, et ce livre est l'histoire de sa découverte, grâce à Vincent, de l'amour total : celui qui prend et engage tout l'être.
C'est à quarante ans, assurent les spécialistes, et bien au-delà, que le corps féminin est le plus apte à découvrir le plaisir : il est prêt. Il suffit que l'esprit le show more soit aussi. Mais il est faux, comme le prétendent certains romans ou le montrent certains films, qu'une femme puisse passer en quelques heures de la froideur à l'extase, par le miracle d'un coup de foudre ou la simple habilité d'un homme. Il s'agit presque toujours d'un long apprentissage auquel la tendresse et le dialogue sont indispensables. show less