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Anne "rowenabookine", blogger, bookstagramer and contributor to the 20 Minutes Books reading group, recommends "Le refrain de l'aube" by Livia Meinzolt, published on September 20, 2022 by Éditions Charleston.
His favorite quote:
I was Nobody's daughter for so many years.
Today, I am my father's daughter.
Why this book?
Because it's the story of two women, mother and daughter,
who are more alike than they think.
They both have a thirst for freedom, to discover the world and they take us with them.
Because Riley's quest is beautiful and touching.
She thought she had no father, that he died before she was born.
So when she finds out he might still be alive, she'll leave heaven and earth to find him.
But above all, she will open up to others, face her fears.
Find herself.
Because this book is first and foremost a journey.
The author describes the landscapes, the scents, the foods, the inhabitants, especially for the chapters in India.
If you like to travel through stories, this book is clearly made for you, we really feel like we are there.
Because music is at the heart of this book,
the author talks about well-known and lesser-known songs.
But above all, she talks about the sharing offered by music.
Thanks to her heroines, she shows us all that music has to offer us.
Because this story is a love story.
Not in the sense of a romance, no, it's much more than that.
Here, it is a question of family love, between sisters, between mother and daughter, between father and daughter.
It's also about passionate love, the kind you can't escape.
But it is also the love of freedom, the love of a country and many more.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Riley arrives in Scotland, the country of origin of her father whom she did not know, who died before she was born.
But a photo in a bar suggests that he is still alive, she only knows his name, like all those who have met him: Nobody...
Characters.
Riley, 19, is looking for her origins, her father.
Passionate about music, food, life.
In constant search of freedom.
Marianne, Riley's mother, 20 years ago, also passionate about everything, living on love and freedom in India.
Places.
This book is in two voices, it is therefore two countries that we find in this story.
First of all Ireland, its atmosphere, its language, its music, its pubs… Then India, at the time of the hippie movement, with its colors, its dishes, its scents and its landscapes.
The time.
In this story, we navigate between two eras.
With Riley, we are in the 2019s, with his mother, Marianne, we are in 1999, 20 years separate his two stories, however similar.
We also do some good ones in 1981.
The author.
Livia Meinzolt is a writer, artist, coach and creative entrepreneur, winner of the 2019 Romantic Book Prize with her first book "Le noise des pages", published by Editions Charleston and Pocket.
This book was read with.
With a desire for freedom and travel, with a feeling of well-being.
Despite some lengths that could have marred my reading, I had tears in my eyes and a heavy heart at the end of the story.
A balm to the heart, an ode to life, to hope.
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