LITERARY FICTION
TELL ME SWEET WORDS
How do we actually manage to love? How do we say
“I love you”? But also, how do we say “I don’t love you
anymore”? How do we get up after biting the dust?
How do we keep it beautiful despite of it all?
FORMAT: 140 x 205
PAGES: 256
WORDS: 48 000 approx.
PUBLICATION DATE:
PUBLISHER: Eyrolles éditions
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The Work
A couple in their forties whose relationship has reached a standstill tries to figure out how things went wrong.
A friendship, based on a common trauma, finds its own way to resilience.
A woman, abused by her partner, decides to give love another chance by finding the strength to leave him.
Grandparents have gone through life without ever letting the spark falter. Yet life will decide that something must end.
A child discovers that his heart can beat very fast for a girl, and wonders if at some point it might explode.
These five paths will intertwine and confront each other, each in their own way, with the intensity of love.
How do we actually manage to love? How do we say “I love you”? But also, how do we say “I don’t love you anymore”? How do we get up after biting the dust? How do we keep it beautiful despite of it all?
The Author(s)
Cécile Hennerolles was a teacher and researcher in Information and Communication Sciences for six years in Lille, France. She currently lives in Amiens where she is a librarian. She has published Vladimir et Clémence, a children’s novel, with Grasset Publishing.
Key Sales Points
– Five intertwined life paths that draw a complex portrait of the Lover.
– A novel with many facets, in which everyone will be able to recognize a fragment of his or her own love story.
– This book accurately portrays the universal nature of love in all its facets: doubts preceding a date, emotions of the first moments, the time of disillusion and loss of love, the difficult journey of a couple, the time after the break-up, the time of possible new beginnings…
– An cross-generational dimension: it is in turn a question of love lived from the point of view of a child, of young adults, of forty-year-olds, of elderly people.
– A writing style reflecting current times: funny, tender, delicate, modern…