[<i>All About Sarah</i>] <b>moves impressively from the chaos and noise of love, to silence and solitude</b>, like a spun coin settling.

- John Self, Observer

<b>A story of desire and desolation.</b>

- Kim Willsher, Guardian

A brief, intense read... <b>compulsive... seductive prose.</b>

- Lara Feigel, Guardian

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There are <b>shades of Duras, Nabokov, and Barthes </b>in the intensely living heart of this magnificent novel.

L'Express

An intoxicating and evocative novel about the all-consuming love affair between two women in Paris and the ruin it leaves in its wake.

'Captivating...intense...seductive' Guardian

A thirty-something teacher drifts through her life in Paris, raising a daughter on her own, lonely in spite of a new boyfriend. Then one night, at a friend's tepid New Year's Eve party, Sarah enters the scene like a tornado. A talented young violinist, she is loud, vivacious, appealingly unkempt in a world where everyone seems preoccupied with being 'just so'. It is the beginning of an intense relationship, tender and violent, that will upend both women's lives.

A literary sensation in France, All About Sarah perfectly captures the pull of a desire so strong that it blinds us to everything else.

'All About Sarah moves impressively from the chaos and noise of love, to silence and solitude, like a spun coin settling' Observer

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An intoxicating and evocative novel about the all-consuming love affair between two women in Paris and the ruin it leaves in its wake.

'Captivating...intense...seductive' Guardian

A thirty-something teacher drifts through her life in Paris, raising a daughter on her own, lonely in spite of a new boyfriend.

Read more

Product details

ISBN
9781529111705
Published
2021-03-11
Publisher
Vintage Publishing; Vintage
Weight
145 gr
Height
200 mm
Width
130 mm
Thickness
10 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
176

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Biographical note

Pauline Delabroy-Allard (Author)
Pauline Delabroy-Allard was born in 1988, and lives in Paris. All About Sarah is her debut novel.

Adriana Hunter (Translator)
Adriana Hunter has translated more than one hundred books, and has won or been shortlisted for numerous translation prizes, most recently as the runner-up for the 2024 Scott Moncrieff Prize for her translation of Hervé Le Tellier’s The Anomaly. She lives in Kent, England.