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AF Steadman, the lady with the unicorn

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AF Steadman publishes “Skandar and the Flight of the Unicorn” with Hachette-Romans in a translation by Alice Delarbre.

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By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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First-time novelist AF Steadman publishes 

a fantasy learning novel that will soon be adapted for the screen.

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Welcome to a novel of adventures and learning that looks like a new fantastic saga!

In this imaginary world, children dream of riding the Unicorns and becoming Riders.

Each year, there is an Examination which makes it possible to designate those who will have the right to leave the Continent and go to the Island in order to hatch a Unicorn, and then to begin the apprenticeship which will allow each to achieve this goal.

The previous year, Kenna, Skandar's big sister, failed this Exam, and she still has a very bitter taste.

All the hopes of the family rest on his little brother who therefore has a lot of pressure on his shoulders;

however, he is anything but a confident boy.

His family doesn't have a lot of money, his mother died a few years ago without him really knowing under what circumstances.

And at school, he is alone, he has no friends, he was even harassed a bit.

However, he will become the hero of a new saga.

Skandar and the Flight of the Unicorn, 

by AF Steadman, was published in France by Hachette-Romans in a translation by Alice Delarbre.

The translation on set was provided by Fabienne Gondrand. 

On the menu of this Café Gourmand:

• Sébastien Jédor

  took the boat to Gorée, 20 minutes off the coast of Dakar.

  The island, a place of memory of the slave trade, is also one of the high places of the Biennial OFF of contemporary art of Dakar with this year, 16 places of exhibition and a theme which returns to several artists: the environment.

  The Biennale OFF of Dakar at the museum of the island of Gorée, it is until June 21.

  And the exhibition of Hélène Jayet at the Joseph-Ndiaye cultural center, until July 31.    

• Marjorie Bertin

  attended

  at

  L'Impromptu de Versailles

  , by the great Molière who celebrates his 400th birthday this year, in the stables of the Palace of Versailles!

  Every day in June is the month of Molière in Versailles, the festival “Le mois Molière” is celebrating its 26th edition this year.

• Fanny Bleichner

  met Chantal Goya, who is celebrating her 80th birthday and has not aged a bit with her fans.

  Chantal Goya who celebrates her 80th birthday today.

  She will be at the Palais des Congrès in Paris on October 8 and 9 for her show

  Le soulier qui vole 

  then she will go on tour again from October 23 with

  Chantal Goya on the enchanted road.

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