by Madeleine Chapsal · Fayard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213028712
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«Mère et filles» is the family novel by Madeleine Chapsal, published by Fayard in paperback (396 pages, in French).
Antoinette, a widow in her sixties, meets her two daughters every summer at the family home in Saintonge. After a heart attack, the unmarried daughter takes her in, awakening rivalry between the sisters: jealousy, reproaches and disputes over the inheritance. Antoinette recovers and remarries, but the war between them does not cease.
The novel, originally published in 1992, bears the subtitle «roman» on its cover and is listed in the literary fiction category.
A novel for a broad female readership, with psychological interest in family and mother-daughter relationships.
Madeleine Chapsal was a French writer and the daughter of Robert Chapsal, son of the politician Fernand Chapsal, and of Marcelle Chaumont, who made dresses for Madeleine Vionnet.
