Le Jour Ou Tu M as Quittee [French]

By Vanessa Schneider

THE DAY YOU LEFT ME

"Where are you, my love, what are you doing? Not having you here makes my head spin, I can't walk straight. Everything's confused and muddled up. You're too young, I hate you for being so beautiful, you've got your life in front of you. I can't eat, don't even feel thirsty. I'd give everything to have you back."

But he doesn't and won't come back. The narrator, a young divorced mother of two, is abandoned one fine summer's day, and feels she's been robbed of all her hopes, is facing a slow decline and the return of all her demons: an absent father, an overly present mother, a fragile sense of her identity, ready to shatter like glass.

Pulling herself together, climbing back up, loving again? A story about resilience and about love gradually evaporating, but also about a particular generation, a portrait of active, computer-savvy thirty-somethings, the turbulent and the settled. It is also unequivocally Vanessa Schneider's most mature and most accomplished novel, taking a step towards the best that is in all of us.

Vanessa Schneider was born in 1969 and is a journalist for M, the magazine of Le Monde. Stock has published her three previous novels, La M re de ma m re (2009), T che de ne pas devenir folle (2009) and Le Pacte des vierges (2011).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2234078075
• ISBN13: 9782234078079
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Stock
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.5"