La forêt de tournesols

Synopsis of La forêt de tournesols

«La forêt de tournesols» is the historical novel by Torey L. Hayden, published by Succès du livre in paperback (in French).

Lesley grows up in Kansas with her Hungarian mother, Mara, a charming and unstable woman marked by the trauma of her adolescence during the Holocaust. Family life becomes increasingly difficult until a tragedy, and Lesley travels to Wales in search of the sunflower forest that her mother remembered as a happy place.

Originally published in English as «The Sunflower Forest» in 1984; this French edition is a translation.

For readers of historical and psychological fiction, especially those interested in stories about memory, trauma and family bonds.