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The Time of a Fall
Novel, 162 pages - 2008
Madelaine is 11 years old when her father abandons her
at the orphanage. Rebellious against all authority and
alone amongst the other girls, sewing becomes her only
refuge.
The nuns place her in a dressmaking workshop and
very quickly she creates her first designs. Customers
stream in, discover her creations and order them: the
workshop overflows with activity. Her designs are a
smash hit.
From then on, the couture house carries her name:
« Madelaine Delisle ».
Press reviews :
«With this second novel
Claire Wolniewicz proves
her unique talent as a
storyteller. A fresco of the
20th century, an original
and delicate novel. The
story of a passionate love
affair. Magnificent.»
Questions de femmes
Fashion takes off and the century passes by with its
inventions and destructions, such as the war which
brings her Tadeusz, a survivor of the camps.
From this union comes a girl, Lucie whom she is
incapable of cherishing. Her old demons prevent her
from being happy.
Rite- of-passage novel
of abandonment, novel
of gift, or story of a life,
The Time of a Fall is a
portrait of fashion and
the 20th century.
Ubiquity
Novel, 144 pages - 2005
Adam Volladier leads a gloomy life, the life of a supermarket accountant without
any curiosity for the world around him. One fine day, he discovers a knack for social
ubiquity : an astonishing number of people recognize in him an old friend, a lawyer, a
tennis partner… Amazed, Adam begins to play with these quite seductive identities.
Until the day he becomes Georges Fondel, a known swindler…
Press reviews :
«The author delivers a cruel
and hilarious d escription
of the life of a 33-year-old
loser in search of who h e
really is. Short, written in a
straightforward style serving
th e plot, U biqu ity sweeps
you a w ay, p e r s u a d e s an d
entertains.»
Elle
10,000 copies sold
Prix Librecourt
Prix des Grandes Ecoles
Short-listed for the Touquet Book Prize
Film rights sold
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