Best Seller, Virginie Grimaldi’s latest book, “Fragile hours” is a real literary favorite.
For almost ten years, Virginie Grimaldi has established himself as one of the authors favorite of the French, capable of delicately capturing everyday emotions. Released last May, his latest book, Fragile hours, Published by Flammarion, is already experiencing immense success in bookstores and online. Critics are unanimous: it is a sensitive and deeply human story, in the right line of its previous bestsellers.
In Fragile hoursthe author stages Diane, a woman who has just been left by the man she loved, and Lou, her 16 -year -old daughter, in the midst of a quest for identity. The mother and the teenager, each with her injuries and her clumsiness, will have to relearn to communicate and understand each other. Over the pages, they open to each other, exploring The gray areas of their past To better build their future.
A story of reconstruction and links
This mother-daughter relationship, a recurring theme in the work of Virginie Grimaldi, is here at the heart of the plot. It allows the author to tackle universal subjects: resilience, transmission, family love, but also the silences that damage and the words that repair. As often, the novelist oscillates between laughter and tears, delivering a text that is both tender and poignant. The faithful readers will not be mistaken: Fragile hours takes up the “recipe” that made the success of novels like Bigger than heaven, a good life or
When our memories come to dance.
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We find this subtle balance between tasty dialogues, situations full of human warmth and deeper reflections on intimate injuries. In an interview, Virginie Grimaldi explained to love “Write on what connects us, on the invisible ties that stand up to us”.
The Grimaldi paw: humor, emotion and authenticity
This new opus perfectly illustrates this intention, offering a sincere dive in the emotions of a mother-daughter duo in search of Renaissance. Offered at a price of € 20.90 in paperback format, Fragile hours already among the Best literary sales of summer. On social networks, many readers share their enthusiasm, some claiming to have “Devoured the book in one night” So much history is addictive.
Through Diane and Lou, Virginie Grimaldi speaks to all those who have already known the loss, the difficulty of advancing or the need to rebuild bridges with those we love. It is this universality that makes fragile hours much more than a simple summer novel: a reading that accompanies, consoles and inspires. By closing its pages, we understand why, year after year, Virginie Grimaldi remains one of the most endearing and sincere voices of contemporary French literature.
