“A radiant future” by Pierre Lemaitre and ” belt ” by Céline Robert

Cécile Ribault-Caillol suggests the first novel by Céline Robert and the sequence of a saga feverishly awaited by the pants of Pierre Lamitre.

Beltet A bright futuretwo novels published in this literary “back to school” of January by Calmann-Lévy editions.

This is the case to say! Belt is the story of Laureen who deceives her husband with Maxime, whose nadia woman falls in love with the baby-sitter, who herself in a pliers for a mature man, her university teacher … to put it simply, all the characters are linked Between them like the notches of a belt.

The belt is here like the desire that links the couple, the one that is distended, the one that is removed, even that one matches. The author invites in the intimacy of each of the protagonists who engage in turn on the couple, desire, seduction, sex, guilt, maturity or not. The connections between the characters are discovered during this novel which can be read as a new one. Between the twists and turns, the little cruelties and the humor posed on our contemporary lives, this makes this short story a bitter-douce love comedy which it would be a shame to deprive yourself.

He is not at his first novel. The last volume of the Saga of Pierre Lemaître over the period of the Thirty Glorious Years, started in 2022, arrived in bookstores on January 21.

We continue to follow the Pelletier family with the very engaging Colette and her odious mother Folcoche. The poor little girl is not spared, her younger brother either, but the unexpected thinning arrives with the bringing these two abused children. On the men’s side, the family is shaken by the serious health problems of the father and it is also hectic on the side of the sons: Jean, known as Bouboule, makes his own, and once again he will not frankly do in lace … While François, the journalist, plays spies in Prague, which in these cold wartime is well risky! A bright future Holds its promises and more: it is even darker, more intriguing, more addictive and always as incredibly delightful.