Beach reading (3/6): “This night that gave me the day” by Frédéric Perrot

Take a good time and bask in the sun, a book in hand. However, But which one to take up your suitcases? However, The editorial staff of RTN offers you every Thursday school holidays to discover a work as part of our. Therefore, series “Beach reading”. Consequently, Mathias Jaquenod, bookseller at Payot Neuchâtel, was invited to share his personal tastes and choose six favorites.

For this third part, he takes us into a sentimental work signed Frédéric Perrot. Consequently, “This night that gave me the day” is the second novel of the French writer. Similarly, “a novel really in emotion from the first page to the last”, according to Mathias Jaquenod. In this story, Étienne returns to her parents’ house on the death of her father. He discovered a letter there that his father wrote. in which he reveals beach reading (3/6): “this night that he had had another love than his mother, shattering Etienne’s certainties.

Mathias Jaquenod greets the style of Frédéric Perrot. “He is an author who masters dramaturgy, suspense, but not suspense as in detective novels. He keeps us going, but with emotions, ”he says.

This novel also has another peculiarity. The voices of Etienne and his father Henri intersect. The reader also travels “in Germany and the Netherlands”, explains the bookseller.

“I rarely let go of small tears when I read. but there it really touched me in the heart,” adds Mathias Jaquenod. /SBM

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