Des grives aux loups

Synopsis of Des grives aux loups

«Des grives aux loups» is the first novel in Claude Michelet's rural saga, published by Pocket in paperback (384 pages, in French).

The action takes place in Saint-Libéral, a small town in Corrèze near the Dordogne, where Jean-Édouard Vialhe, a respected farmer, exercises his authority over the land and his family. With the new century come techniques and ideas that erode the old rural order and shape the lives of his children Pierre-Édouard, Louise and Berthe.

First instalment of the Saga des Vialhe, a four-book series by Claude Michelet; originally published in 1979.

A read for those seeking rural novels, historical fiction and family sagas set in early twentieth-century France.