![]() ![]() An amoral tale of a heady summer set on the French Riviera, this fast-paced novella scandalised French society and soon brought fame to its young author. Translated as ‘Hello Sadness’, Bonjour Tristesse was written by seventeen-year old Françoise Sagan published in 1954 when the author was just seventeen, it immediately became an overnight sensation. The book is certainly more handbag-friendly than my copy of Middlemarch – which has been wrongly mistaken for the Bible on more than one occasion. Originally bought from Atlantis Books while on holiday in Santorini a few weeks previously, the shop itself is a haven for book lovers tucked away in a white-washed cave-like building on a side street in Santorini, I could have spent my entire holiday perusing the well-stocked shelves, but instead settled for an hour in the early evening sun, leaving with just one of the bookseller’s recommendations. Thankfully, I had packed Bonjour Tristesse. ![]() ![]() On the second leg of my journey to Sydney, having finished Middlemarch at Beijing Aiport, I was in dire need of a quick, compelling read that would entertain me for the final couple of hours of my flight. ![]()
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