This fine debut turns about Margot, the natural child of a prominent French politician: adolescence, with all its tender spots and short focus, resentful, impressionable, knowing-it-all but getting it wrong, ardent yet hesitant. And oh, so easy to exploit…
The Margot Affair
(author)
ÂŁ16.99
Edition:Hardback978152938467302/07/2020
Categories: 05. Summer Books 2020: Fiction, Fiction, Summer Books 2020
Tags: Family life fiction, Fiction in Translation, France, Paris (city), Political / legal thriller
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