Already a bestseller in several countries, this enchanting novel about a collection of misfits in Paris is quirky, poignant and unputdownable - Gavalda is a new young literary star.
Born in 1970, Anna Gavalda was a teacher whose collection of stories, I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere, shot her to fame (published in the UK with her novella Someone I Loved). Her novel Hunting and Gathering (Ensemble c'est tout) was a bestseller in several countries, selling over two million copies, and was made into a film; this was followed by Consolation. Her books have been translated into thirty-six languages. The mother of two children, she lives and writes just outside Paris.
Enjoyable, well-paced and engaging
*Times Literary Supplement*
Like Amélie, Hunting and Gathering stops at nothing to make the
reader feel good. Reading it reminded me of tucking into one of
those beautifully constructed little cakes that you see in the
windows of elegant French patisseries
*Sunday Telegraph*
A charming, romantic - and very French - novel
*Daily Mail*
An elegant, ironic tale.. this will be a classic
*Cosmopolitan*
Gavalda's ability to reinvent the will-they-won't-they love story
makes this a refreshing five-star read with real bite
*Eve*
Love cures all that ails the troubled trio of no-hopers in this sentimental second novel by French literary sensation Gavalda (Someone I Loved; I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere). Camille, a talented artist exhausted by ennui and anorexia, cleans offices at night and cowers in a shabby garret by day. Philibert, the fastidious scion of a titled family, peddles museum postcards while squatting in his dead grandmother's Parisian manse, waiting for her estate to be settled. Philibert's roommate, Franck, a talented (and womanizing) chef with ambition to burn, motorcycles once a week to look in on his stubborn, ailing grandmother Paulette, an inmate at a retirement home. When Philibert finds Camille deathly ill one day, he rescues her from her icy garret and deposits her in his shabby but spacious home. Franck and Camille take an immediate dislike to each other, a sure sign that they're bound to fall in love-which happens, cutely, after they liberate Paulette. That's when, for the first time, each and every one of them felt like they belonged to a real family. Gavalda's comically implausible and comfortably predictable novel of misfits is a Gallic charmer anchored by breezy and poignant storytelling. (Apr.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
Enjoyable, well-paced and engaging -- Lucille Houston * Times
Literary Supplement *
Like Amelie, Hunting and Gathering stops at nothing
to make the reader feel good. Reading it reminded me of tucking
into one of those beautifully constructed little cakes that you see
in the windows of elegant French patisseries * Sunday Telegraph
*
A charming, romantic - and very French - novel -- Rev'd Amber
Pearson * Daily Mail *
An elegant, ironic tale.. this will be a classic * Cosmopolitan
*
Gavalda's ability to reinvent the will-they-won't-they love story
makes this a refreshing five-star read with real bite * Eve *
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