On the death of her friend Barbara and her husband in a car accident, the one her colleagues nicknamed Nemo, for her propensity to make jokes, inherited their three children whom she raised with her “boyfriend on wheels”. in a former clinic located above a pharmacy.
Recognized for her work in children’s literature, Amélie Dumoulin transposes her colorful pen and her love for non-conformist characters into a first novel for adults. His book love novel is such a confident nod to the rose-water romances of Éditions Harlequin that she sprinkles her work with some delicious excerpts and micro-poems cobbled together from these stolen words. Above all, she diverts their codes, rejecting their chivalrous prose in favor of an oral language, raw, devoid of frills.
And there is nothing tasteless in this love novel, consisting of the one-way correspondence that Nemo maintains with “Barb” in his pretty Moleskine notebook strewn with stars found on the ground. From “Tata cool”, she became, despite herself, a “little Quebec mother worried” for her offspring. But despite all the greatness of the drama on which the story is based, it is with humor and self-mockery that this thirty-year-old recounts her anxieties, her questions, her moments of madness and above all her extramarital romance with an attractive colleague nicknamed Brossard who will prove much less brave knight than anticipated!
This is a light read that does not dodge serious themes. A successful transition to adulthood for Amélie Dumoulin.
love novel
Amelie Dumoulin
Quebec America
168 pages