Caroline Boudet
Caroline Boudet est journaliste et maman de deux enfants. L’Effet Louise est son troisième livre....
Juste un peu de temps
Auteur
Parution :
02/05/2018
Collection :
Hors collection littérature française
Being a mother, a working woman, still attractive and full of smiles?
Sophie is 35, has a wonderful husband, three beautiful children and a job she loves. She’s the woman everyone else envies. And then one day, perfect Sophie disappears. Leaving only an enigmatic note, “Just a little time”, which baffles her husband Loïc. Because he’s attentive, isn’t he, loving, happy to help around the house. Could she have a lover?
The children stay calm, though, confident their mother will soon be back (“I’ll always be here for you,” she tells them every evening when she puts them to bed). They make the most of the chaos to go to bed late, playing on tablets and stuffing their faces with sweets!
Meanwhile, Sophie treats herself to a seaside break: for a few hours she switches off her phone and her maternal instinct, with all its attendant guilt and demands, just long enough to breathe and remember who she is. But what happens when she chances across a former lover?
A novelistic approach to one of society’s big issue: mental load.
Sophie is 35, has a wonderful husband, three beautiful children and a job she loves. She’s the woman everyone else envies. And then one day, perfect Sophie disappears. Leaving only an enigmatic note, “Just a little time”, which baffles her husband Loïc. Because he’s attentive, isn’t he, loving, happy to help around the house. Could she have a lover?
The children stay calm, though, confident their mother will soon be back (“I’ll always be here for you,” she tells them every evening when she puts them to bed). They make the most of the chaos to go to bed late, playing on tablets and stuffing their faces with sweets!
Meanwhile, Sophie treats herself to a seaside break: for a few hours she switches off her phone and her maternal instinct, with all its attendant guilt and demands, just long enough to breathe and remember who she is. But what happens when she chances across a former lover?
A novelistic approach to one of society’s big issue: mental load.
« La charge mentale. La foutue charge mentale. Qui ressemble de plus en plus à une charge explosive qu’elle ferait volontiers sauter… Quelque chose a claqué en elle. Sophie ne voulait pas rentrer, ne pouvait pas. Elle ne voulait plus de cette vie-là. Ses pieds n’avaient tout simplement pas pu prendre le chemin de la gare, ses doigts avaient d’eux-mêmes éteint son portable, et son instinct maternel — je suis
indispensable, je suis coupable, ils ne sont rien sans moi — s’est mis en mode silencieux pour la première fois depuis sept ans.
Un silence absolument, pleinement, intensément reposant. »
indispensable, je suis coupable, ils ne sont rien sans moi — s’est mis en mode silencieux pour la première fois depuis sept ans.
Un silence absolument, pleinement, intensément reposant. »
270 pages
Format :
135 x 215 mm
EAN :
9782234085855
Prix :
19.00 €
