Dans les jardins de mon père

Synopsis of Dans les jardins de mon père

«Dans les jardins de mon père» is the autobiographical account by Nicole Avril, published by Seine in paperback (208 pages, in French).

Nicole Avril recalls her childhood in three places: the beach at Nieul-sur-Mer, a house in Rambouillet and a humble neighbourhood in Lyon. She evokes the scents of the sea and her father's gardens, with flowers, corn and fruit, along with the pain of an illness that disfigured her face and her first love in adolescence. An almost forgotten post-war France.

With the subtitle «Blessures d'enfance», the work was originally published in 1989; this edition is from 2000.

For readers of French literature and fans of personal memoirs and childhood stories.