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Sarah Clain's
Origami Blues
, published on May 11, 2021 by Charleston Publishing and winner of the 2021 Romantic Book Award.
Her favorite quote:
I understand. But art is also a dialogue between the one who does and the one who looks. Your works are also a vector of communication between you and the world. We cannot ignore the artist, otherwise we can miss the message he wants to convey.
Why this book?
Because it's a delicious romantic trip to the world of origami.
One can imagine the thousand paper cranes taking off carrying their heroine in a world of peace and love.
A delicious romance, imbued with resilience, good feelings and which escapes us.
She will tear you away from a few tears over the final revelations along with a lot of joy.
Because the characters are sympathetic to us from the start.
Each has its flaws and its strengths.
The story deals with family ties and the difficulty for everyone to find their place.
Without ever falling into sentimentality Sarah Clain offers us a beautiful romance cradled with a few secrets that push us to the next page.
We taste it with so much pleasure.
Because the novel is short but intense in emotion.
Imagining the outcome is difficult and it takes us into a whirlwind of revelations.
Each takes its place and warms our hearts.
A feelgood with an ideal happy ending for our afternoon vacation in the sun.
To be enjoyed without moderation.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Florence runs origami workshops.
Discreet, it displays a melancholy whose origin we discover in the background: a youth marked by a tragic event.
The arrival of Raphaël and Vincent will force him to leave his reserve and finally grant himself the right to peace and happiness.
Characters.
Florence our origami artist heroine, Sandy her friend and partner pregnant with her first child, Raphaël the new employee, Rebecca her sister and her son Solal, Vincent the handsome stranger.
Places.
France paris.
The time.
Nowadays, with leaps in the youth of Florence.
The author.
Sarah Clain is a French novelist.
First author of calligraphic works on the walls of the family apartment, she decides one day, to the relief of her parents, to fill notebooks with stories of all kinds.
Since then, she hasn't stopped writing ...
This book was read
between smile and tears, a book that unfolds like an origami to discover all its secrets.
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