Recent Works
Her most recent saga Les yeux jaunes des crocodiles, followed by The Turtles' Slow Waltz describes the relationships between the members of a family and particularly between two sisters.
Many readers were able to identify with the inspirational main character, Joséphine. This woman in her forties struggles with a divorce, economic problems, a difficult teenage daughter, a tyrannical mother, and low self-esteem. She gets entangled in a lie set up by her sister, becoming her ghost-writer. As she discovers her own talents, she struggles with not getting credit for her work, which becomes a runaway best-seller. Through these challenges, Joséphine grows and finds out who she really is.
The many characters surrounding Joséphine evolve into a web of friendships, betrayals and dreams. Even Florine, the 12th century rebellious young heroine Joséphine creates for her novel, becomes a character in her own right as her destiny unfolds within a well-developed medieval setting.
Easy to read, the theme of this page-turner is to stay positive, absorb life's blows, then move on, not hiding from life but embracing it.
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“The family that perseveres in good works will surely have an abundance of blessings.”
—Chinese proverb.
“We do not fear censorship for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue—the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word, that art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.”
—D.W. (David Wark)