Welcome to Litsy!

How does she get away with cranking out these doorstoppers? No need for 632 pgs yet here I am, plowing through. Something about how she times the reveals, the gossipy feel. Same book as always: melodrama, childhood friends, flashbacks, intergenerational trauma. This time with circus performers, filmmakers & concert pianists. 2024

192 “…je pense qu‘on fait le même film toute sa vie.â€� (ou qu‘on écrit le même bouquin toute sa vie, Mme. Perrin?)

I see the English translation is expected to release June 2026. 😅😅😅

Perrin‘s latest is another winner.

It‘s autumn 2010, and Agnes gets a call that her aunt has died. There‘s just one problem, she was told the same thing in 2007 and a person can‘t die twice right? So Agnes travels to her aunt‘s home and meets some old childhood friends and some of her aunt‘s friends

Did her aunt not live the boring life that everyone thought? Quite the story is unraveled

On my way to a musical early tonight, I passed a bookstore window (and yes, I went inside too).

One of their windows was covered in Valerie Perrin‘s latest novel in French

At least now there‘s hope for a new book in translation, and hopefully sometime soon