Du jour au lendemain (12/18)"The imprint of broken things may be what we hide from ourselves and what keeps us going.
"Writer and woman, the narrator is accepted into the Académie française. Her acceptance speech is unusual. Insolent. Abrubt. Moving. Ferocious. With an unexpected conclusion. She reviews the episodes of a life, without false modesty, mocks the culture of appearances, confronts her own doubts and doesn't fail to hit her targets.
"Claire Gallois' talent lies in the biting freedom with which she brings together the real and imaginary, the serious with the frivolous. A novel about time and vanity that begins with a joke and ends with a tear in the eye."
