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Description of Double Crossings |
Set in the vivid landscapes of southern France, this well crafted novel tells a powerful and moving story of an Anglo-French couple's move from Leicester to the Languedoc.
William uses his laptop diary to find his feet in an alien culture, playfully mixing fact with fantasy, sharp observation with comic exaggeration. When Francoise, apparently flourishing in the small town politics of Forac-Montjoie, reads her husband's diary, the tone darkens.
Intercutting between William's diary entries and Francoise's later reading of the diary during the week of the July 2005 London bombings the tension builds to a tragic denouement.
A colourful cast ranging from upper-class ex-pat neighbours, a wise old Leicester Hindu, a seductive young schoolteacher, a xenophobic detective inspector, a stroppy email lover and a storytelling Chinese pig help to reveal the love and deceits of the Beauchamps' marriage as a metaphor for the promise, paradox and 'double crossings' of migration in the modern world.
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About Yvette Rocheron |
Yvette Rocheron grew up in Northern France, married (twice) in Britain, and has one son. She worked at the University of Leicester for twenty-four years, at first in sociological research and latterly teaching in French Studies. She now divides her time between Leicester and Southern France. Her academic publications include work on several themes fictionalised in the novel: sexual violence, transnational marriage, and North-African migration to France.
This is her first novel. She is now working on a second novel drawing on her earlier experience as a trained acupuncturist.
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