9781913547738
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Author_Stephane Carlier
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French salon
Gallic Books
hairdresser
humor
identity crisis
literature
Marcel Proust
Paris
personal growth
quirky characters
self-discovery
transformation
Product details
- ISBN 9781805334842
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jan 2025
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'An elegant and quietly lyrical charting of a life changed by books' Irish Times
'Full of charm, sensitivity and intelligence. Brilliant.' Antoine Laurain, author of The Red Noteboook
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Clara is a hairdresser at Cindy Coiffure, a sleepy French salon with an identity crisis. Her relationship is fizzling out. Her tanoholic boss Madame Habib worships Jacques Chirac and talks longingly of her days in Paris. And now Madame Lévy-Leroyer wants to go blonde. Clara can't help but wonder if there's more to life than this . . .
Everything changes when a customer leaves behind the first volume of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. As Clara reads, she discovers a new world. And slowly but surely, she will work out who she wants to be.
Stéphane Carlier was born in 1971 in Argenteuil, France. Clara Reads Proust is his eighth novel and the first to be translated into English.
