I wanted to read something set in the locality, but I knew absolutely nothing about Bordeaux or Les Landes. This was recommended in a guidebook and I bought a copy in Daunt, and I'm starting to believe it's impossible to buy a bad book from there. There's a bar set by the fact that most book there have been translated, and who is going to translate a bad or unsuccessful book? Audrey Tautou from Amelie is on the front cover of the edition I bought, as she made a film based on the book in 2012. It's the story of a murderous bourgeois woman trying to make her way and assert her independence, but it's very much set in the pines and flat sandy landscape of Les Landes, so i could look up from the book and see the very countryside where it is set. Luckily Helen didn't attempt to poison me as Therese does to her husband.
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