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»By Gaëlle Ausserré, winner of the Unknown Authors' Prize, whose book was initially published on November 20, 2020 in self-publishing.
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You know where to find me!
by Gaëlle Ausserré, winner of the Unknown Authors' Prize in the “romance” category, whose book was released on November 20, 2020 in self-publishing.
Her favorite quote:
What an unexpected and unique team these two ill-assorted solitudes are!
Why this book?
Because this book won the Unknown Authors' Prize on December 21
in the “Romance” category, which is a guarantee of quality.
You know where to find me
impressed the jury "with its sensitive pen and its ability to draw us into the heart of the characters' emotions".
The jurors are unanimous: "It is a moving reading, which one cannot forget!
"
Because this romance renews the genre in an original way:
it is not the seduction phase of the beginning of a story that is approached, but the ability of a married couple to change their relationship when life does. manhandled. However, lovers of seduction can rest assured: the book offers beautiful flashbacks on how the story of Else and Greg began in the most romantic of cities, Paris. It is moreover its clever construction that makes the book a page-turner whose twists and turns are anticipated and feared ...
Because Else takes its name from the story of
Mademoiselle Else
by Arthur Schnitzler, "heroine of a proud and whole character" who fascinated her mother, but whose aura linked to her story, painful and steeped in contradictions, is painful. comfortable. The ambivalent decor is set, especially since for Greg, her American lover, she is "else", "other". Other: alter ego, or hell? We can imagine that their relationship will alternate between the two sides and that a character who bears this first name cannot have a simple life.
Because it's a book where you open and close doors.
Those of our hearts, of course: opening it to the unknown, closing it to those who have hurt us, opening it to second chances, closing it to the unacceptable ... But the doors are also those of apartments where we have been happy, apartments where we have been unhappy, those of the rooms where we sleep to escape, and then the one, closed, at the end of the apartment. " The door. We quickly understand what is behind it… but can the reasons for reopening it be more terrifying than those which forced it to be closed?
Because the leitmotif "you know where to find me" guides the story
and takes on several meanings that overwhelm us.
Else knows where to find Greg when they are dating, but Greg also knows where to find Else when they are in crisis.
And as to where to find Lucie… it's far too poignant to reveal in a chronicle.
However, the possibility of always being there in each other's hearts is indeed the central theme of a book which recreates the twists and turns of a loving journey in a world where everything swings - perhaps even love.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Greg and Else reunite after six months of separation, and the attraction between them is as strong as the reasons to run away.
It must be said that they are husband and wife ... so together "for better or for worse".
The worst has obviously happened: will they be able to return to the best?
Characters.
This is the story of Greg and Else, but what would their life be without Jeannette (heir to Poupette, Vic's grandmother in The Boom) and especially, without James, the preteen nephew who seems to be Forrest's heir. Gump, only have problems but actually only have solutions?
Places.
Greg and Else punctuate their story of crossing the Atlantic in the direction they need to find each other or to escape ... But the place that best symbolizes their emotions is still Lincoln Park in Chicago, where Gus, the little one, was born. squirrel hero of the books Else draws.
The time.
You know where to find me
plays very contemporary characters, which could be you or me.
They are thus immersed in situations with which we can recognize and identify in our 2020s, between the demands of the couple and those of professional life.
The author.
A graduate in Contemporary History, having worked in the publishing world, Gaëlle Ausserré has been self-publishing her novels since 2018. Historical novel, romance, she knows how to write everything and has built a great career as an independent author: advice to readers, but also, to publishers!
This book was read with
no desire to let go of Greg and Else, a couple we need to know what becomes of him.
That's good: the rest of their story was published in 2021 ... and its title, The Exact Place I Must Be, makes you want to know which side of the Atlantic makes them say that!
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