Une pure merveille !
Un roman d'une grande beauté, drôle, fin, extrêmement lumineux sur des sujets difficiles : la perte de
l'être aimé, la dureté de la vie et la tristesse qu'on barricade parfois... Elise franco-japonaise,
orpheline de sa maman veut poser LA question à son père et elle en trouvera le courage au fil des pages,
grâce au retour de sa grand-mère du japon, de sa rencontre avec son extravagante amie Stella..
Ensemble il ne diront plus Sayonara mais Mata Ne !
The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house, Golsoncott. Years later when the house...
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The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house, Golsoncott. Years later when the house was sold, she began to piece together the lives of those she knew fifty years before. Through a needlework sampler, she sees her grandmother and the wartime children that she sheltered in 1940. Potted-meat jars remind her of doing the flowers for church. The smell of the harness room brings her Aunt Rachel - avant-garde artist, fervent horsewoman - vividly back to life.
In A House Unlocked, Penelope Lively delves into the domestic part of her former home, unearthing the stories surrounding the house and family, not only telling of her own youth but also brilliantly evoking the contrasts between life today and the way they lived then.