All About Sarah Av Pauline Delabroy-Allard

<p><b>An intoxicating and evocative novel about the all-consuming love affair between two women in Paris and the ruin it leaves in its wake.</b><br><br><b>''Captivating...intense...seductive'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>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. <br><br>A literary sensation in France,<i> All About Sarah </i>perfectly captures the pull of a desire so strong that it blinds us to everything else.<br><br>''<i>All About Sarah</i> moves impressively from the chaos and noise of love, to silence and solitude, like a spun coin settling'' <i>Observer</i></p>