"A darkly atmospheric story about a mother and son living on the fringes of society in Marseille, from an award-winning French writer"
Marginal people scratching a living on the beach in Marseille, no money and no way out - this is the framework of Marion Brunet’s unsettling novel, Vanda. A short but sharply written book, Vanda is about a single mother, whose life has been one of free-spirited rebellion, trying to hold things together for her young son.
What the novel is really about is prejudice, the secret cruelty of society and how having no money makes you an easy target. Thought-provoking fiction with a strong narrative drive, Vanda is expertly translated from the French by Katherine Gregor. Author Marion Brunet was previously recognised in France for her young adult fiction, yet Vanda and her previous adult novel, The Summer Of Reckoning, which won the prestigious French literary prize, Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, have taken her work to a new and eager audience.
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"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remoresely all that stands in its path." Agatha Christie
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"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity.
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Vanda was written by Marion Brunet and published by Bitter Lemon Press
Vanda has 203 pages
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