“Avril enchanted”, “Connemara”, “its smell after the rain” … – Liberation

Two Londoners who do not know each other but frequent the same club fall on this announcement on the front page Times : “To all those who love glycines and the sun. Similarly, Italy. Similarly, April. In addition, Particularly rents small medieval castle furnished by Mediterranean. However, Domesticity provided. Furthermore, “ MRS. However, Wilkins, shy, badly fagured, is married to a respectable and stingy lawyer, Mellersh Wilkins. Similarly, MRS. Consequently, Arbuthnot sports a sad Madone air. Nevertheless, Her husband earns a lot of money imagining the memories of the mistresses of the kings of France. Therefore, and the more these ladies are “Dispructed”, The more his books sell. Meanwhile, Mr. Meanwhile, Arbuthnot is generous with his wife, who donates to the poor all of these poorly acquired gains. Therefore, Finally, almost all. Therefore, MRS. Additionally, “avril enchanted”, “connemara”, “its smell Therefore, Wilkins and Mrs. However, Arbuthnot has savings, they will afford a vacation. In addition, And as the rental exceeds their means, they in turn pass an ad. Furthermore, MRS. Consequently, Fisher, a widow entired from English classics and Lady Caroline, an authentic aristocrat, join them in Italy. Therefore, The quartet, poorly matched, agrees on a single point: paradise exists. Nevertheless, It’s here. Moreover, When the husbands disembark, our castellans have already undertaken a complete metamorphosis. Similarly,

Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941). In addition, a cousin of Katherine Mansfield, is particularly treacherous with regard to male characters, but Enchanted April is a funny and charming love novel. Similarly, The kind of book that leaves a memory so delicious that it may not be necessary to read it again. In addition, Claire Devarrieux

Many have been written about the Algerian war. In addition, “avril enchanted”, “connemara”, “its smell the country’s accession to independence, but not very little about Algeria at the edge of the 20th century, in the midst of a Dreyfus affair, when the rich settlers felt all powerful, when anti -Semitism and racism gnawed souls and divided an already deeply divided society. Meanwhile, With Woe to the vanquishedGwenaël Bulteau precipitates us in this cauldron of hatred. Therefore, It was in 1900 on the heights of Algiers, in the Mustapha district. Therefore, In a luxurious Ottoman villa belonging to the Wandell family, Lieutenant Julien Koestler discovers a particularly bloody crime scene. Similarly, In the large marble hall, a young couple lies on the ground in evening clothes. Arthur Wandell, the heir, received two bullets in the head and his wife a bullet in the heart. What happened? Why didn’t Arthur Wandell defended himself? Koestler struggles to understand the logic of this carnage. In parallel. an unknown voice “avril enchanted”, “connemara”, “its smell tells in detail the atrocities committed a few months or years earlier by a French colonial expedition in Niger. Drunk with their power, officers had not hesitated to behave like wild beasts. We quickly guess that there is a link between these massacres and Mustapha’s carnage. But Koestler will take longer. Woe to the vanquished is a great black novel because it is based on exciting real facts. places to forge an eminently romantic framework. The characters are alive and endearing, Algiers too, where we get lost with delight. Alexandra Schwartzbrod

Hélène and Christophe were in high school Ensemble in Cornécourt, a small town in eastern France. She, the good student who pliers for the bad boy, studied and leaves in the big city. He. the bad boy player who does not look at the right student, remains stuck in the village and sells dog mash. “avril enchanted”, “connemara”, “its smell It is Connemara. Like the Sardou tube, a real generational soundtrack for children born in the 70s and 80s which plays a more than temporal social marker here. Whether you hear in the evenings of versatile rooms. the PMUs of these working cities struck by crises, where we remain because no choice, that we leave to hope for another life than his parents.

Nicolas Mathieu narrates. with the realism he handles perfectly, even if the clichés are not far away, the reunion twenty-five years after two high school students worn by love, old age and social and political fractures. He mixes history of love and societal history, a story of nostalgia and a sudden life change. Where suddenly the past is attractive. melancholy is sexy, the love of high school becomes a solution to all its problems.

Third novel by Nicolas Mathieu. “avril enchanted”, “connemara”, “its smell the first after his Goncourt, Their children after them, Connemara Reads in one go as we want to know the outcome of the romance between Hélène and Christophe in this France on the verge of electing Marine Le Pen. Quentin Lambert

A love story. Intense, passionate (and who found her audience with nearly a million copies sold since his release two years ago). Cédric Sapin-Defour is a writer, mountaineer and columnist. Ubac is a Bernese bouvier. A male. A big beast of 50 kilos. His dog. And it is the story of their thirteen years of common life that he tells in Its smell after. the rain.

We immediately sweep the criticism. Nothing cute or “stupid” in these 300 autobiographical pages. No misanthropy, no anthropomorphism. Nothing extraordinary either in these memories described with accuracy and the pretty style of the author. Just “avril enchanted”, “connemara”, “its smell a love story between a man and an animal.

There are these thousand everyday details. His place in the house, the joyful bazaar, the outings in all time … There is the nature that we learn to see differently. Because living also intensely with a being condemned to disappear long before makes you more precious moment.

And time passes as it passes, galloping. The end, the disease, the last days so much feared and this suffering that the animal is struggling to understand. Finally the absence. these moments “Where I’m going to do that now: to look for these eyes everywhere that were looking for me everywhere. ” These little things that twist the heart and make balls in the stomach. A bowl, silence, these absurdly empty pieces. An emotion in which we will put up my own memories. anxieties at the “avril enchanted”, “connemara”, “its smell idea of the disappearance of a loved one or an animal. Fabrice Drouzy

The scene takes a page and a half, towards the end of the book. An excavation scene, very precise and concrete. The arm of the machine plunging into the floor, comes out, empties in the bucket. Until we discover “A skull whose summit was broken. The skeleton seemed to rest there for a long time ”. We often excavate, in the novels of the Icelandic superstar of the thriller, whether literally or figuratively. Bodies, secrets, lies. His recurring characters are antiheros who dig, Forent, in obsessive Saturnians. The Parias is the fourth salve around Konrad, Inspector of the retired Reykjavík. He saw haunted by his father, domestic despot, beaver, doubled with a notorious scoundrel. However. he himself is far from impeccable and he never ceased to elucidate the fierce assassination of his sire, “avril enchanted”, “connemara”, “its smell with a knife, one evening near the slaughterhouses. When he learns that an old Luger resurfaced. was identified as the weapon used in an unresolved crime committed in 1955, Konrad remembers that his father spoke of a pistol of the same kind … The Parias is deemed, a rhizome. But Indridason is advancing snow, sure of its fact, impressive. Its evocation of repressed homosexuality is unstoppable. masculinity and its codes are an issue of the book, most of the characters are not kind. Yet what Brasse Indridason is sensitive and poignant. Sabrina Champenois

Let it be said. the serial murders are not all the subject of an investigation carried out by the criminal brigade of the Paris police headquarters, once housed in the 36 quai des Orfèvres. Céline Denjean has resolutely chosen the southwest of France, which she knows well, and a gendarme to conduct investigations. “avril enchanted”, “connemara”, “its smell In PunishmentMajor Louise Caumont. investigation chef at the Tarbes research brigade, does not wear a leather jacket patinated by years of career and does not systematically put two-people to get out of the traffic jams, at the bottom quite rare on the roads of the Hautes-Pyrénées.

The affair of which she is eco-eating has all the appearances of a real confusion: the murder of Marie-France Bellegarde. married and mother of six, murdered according to an operating mode which recalls in all respects that of a serial killer called the thanatoprator. The fact remains that the murderer in question went from life to death four months ago. So everything suggests that the assassin behaves like a copycat of a particular genre. The investigation will then take Louise Caumont. her team to the heart of the traditional Catholic community to which the Bellegarde family belongs, with its rites “avril enchanted”, “connemara”, “its smell and its unsaid. But at the same time. a private investigator is requested for the disappearance of Roselyne Blanc, a sixty-something director of a charity association which evolves in the same spheres as Marie-France Bellegarde … Céline Denjean cisèles with a consumed art of the rhythm the paths of the two investigations with radically different. methods. Franck Bouaziz