Clémentine Beauvais

Âge tendre

Tender Age

August 19, 2020
Novel
392 pages
135 × 215 mm
17 €
9782377314652
978-2-3773-1465-2

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																Clémentine Beauvais, Âge tendre
																Clémentine Beauvais, Âge tendre

Clémentine Beauvais is back with a comedy that goes Sheban-pow-pow-whizz!

The President of the Republic has decided that every student must do a year of civic service somewhere in France between his third and second year. Valentin Lemonnier is not lucky: his wishes are not respected, and he is sent to the Pas-de-Calais, to a center for elderly people suffering from Alzheimer’s, meticulously reconstructed to resemble a village from the 1960s.

His first mission seems simple enough: to write a letter to a resident who answered a contest in a 1967 Salut les copains, to tell her that, unfortunately, Françoise Hardy won’t be able to come sing in their town.

Except that it is difficult to announce such bad news. So he announces the opposite. Françoise Hardy will come! He commits himself to it personally. And to do this, he will have to find a look-alike of the star, who will sing his hit La maison où j’ai grandi to all the residents.

The author

Clémentine Beauvais writes and translates, mainly children’s literature. She is notably the author of Petites reines and Songe à la douceur for Sarbacane Editions. She has translated numerous novels by Elizabeth Acevedo, Sarah Crossan, as well as novels by Meg Rosoff and J.K. Rowling’s The Ickabog. Her books have won multiple national and international awards. She is also a research professor at the University of York, England.

Press

“The novelist offers herself a literary game in keeping with her fantasy.”

Le Monde.

“Une merveille d’intelligence et de fantaisie.”

ELLE.

“A novel of beautiful fantasy, funny and sensitive [...] Fabulous!”

Télérama.

“378 pages of a memorable internship journal.”

L’OBS.
August 19, 2020
Novel
392 pages
135 × 215 mm
17 €
9782377314652
978-2-3773-1465-2

“Exprim‘”