Monelle et les baby sitters

by Geneviève Brisac

On a rarement intérêt à ce que sa mère décide brusquement de retravailler. Le défilé de baby-sitters commence et on n'est jamais sûr de bien tomber. La maman de Monelle a porté son choix sur Mme Turpin aux principes très sains et très stricts...

140 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published August 1, 1992

About the author

Geneviève Brisac is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1996, for Week-end de chasse à la mère, a novel translated in English as Losing Eugenio (2000) and referred to in The New York Times as a "mildly compelling text." She also writes short stories and children's literature, and is a literary critic for Le Monde, and with Christophe Honoré she co-wrote the screenplay for Honoré's Non Ma Fille, Tu N'iras pas Danser (2009). Plagued by anorexia from childhood, she wrote an "auto-fictional" novel, Petite (1994), in which she recounts her struggle with the disease.

Reviews

[StephenWoolf]

Très 90s, ne serait-ce que parce qu'une famille "normale", certes CSP+, semble vivre dans un 80m² à Paris près du Louvre...