Julie Bonnie, musician, violinist, guitarist and composer, has started rock groups, sung, worked in maternity wards. Author, she has also written around twenty Books for adults and children. She told us about her new novel My children are gone during our visit to the book fair in Le Touquet.
Julie is 50 years old, her two children leave the nest at the same time. The house empties and questions arise. In this book, Julie Bonnie addresses, not without humor, the famous empty nest syndrome, this feeling of sadness and loneliness felt by the parent when their child leaves home.
An event for which we are not prepared
The author of Bedroom 2marked by her work in maternity, returns to this subject, from another angle this time, addressing not the arrival of a child, but the departure. In this story mixed with fiction, interspersed with short stories, she recounts the journey of women, from the birth of their child to their flight from the family nest. An event which for her was a big surprise for which she was not prepared. “ It’s the story of a panicshe tells us. I didn’t expect to experience this. It was a big surprise that plunged me into the same upheaval as their arrival.. »
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