Carpe Diem. On the cover of the notebook that contains her thoughts, the words taunt Alexia. At 14, the time when she could “seize the day” seems very far away. Since the accident that took away her mother, her stepfather and her two half-brothers, she has been living in the depths of the Dordogne with her father, Greg, whom she barely knows. The latter, clinging to his dream of building cabins, does not seem equipped to raise a teenager who is shelled in her misfortune… But the arrival in their lives of Ida, a pensioner with a loud voice, and Solène, a caring young woman who tours the book boxes of France, could well help Alexia and Greg to tame each other… “A touching story featuring characters hurt by life but who together will rebuild themselves. A real gem!” 20 Minutes Born in 1979 in Oise, Cynthia Kafka is a former school teacher. Blogger, editor and then author, she self-published her first novels. In 2021 she published Je suis venu te dire with Éditions de L’Archipel followed by Contre vents et secrets in 2022. Her new novel, Pour qu’elle revienne, was published by Éditions Charleston in 2024.
