![]() ![]() ![]() Written when the author, Françoise Sagan, was only 18 years old, Bonjour Tristesse was an overnight success. All set against the backdrop of the French Riviera, descriptions of golden-skinned Cécile and her father Raymond’s hedonistic lifestyle, full of fast cars, languid heat and carefree soirées, oozes with nostalgia for a 1950s France that perhaps only ever truly existed in our collective imaginations. ![]() Fear not, I have just the ticket for you: Bonjour Tristesse, a charming, witty and thoroughly dark tale all wrapped up in a slender 112-page novella.īonjour Tristesse is the story of Cécile, part-sophisticated beyond her years, part-precocious teenager, who is driven by jealousy, stubbornness and ennui to interfere in her father’s love affairs, leading to devastating consequences. If you’re anything like me, finishing season 2 of Emily in Paris will have left you wanting oh so much more of everything à la française. ![]()
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