
Tata
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Valerie Perrin's first new novel since her breakout bestseller Fresh Water for Flowers
"Valerie Perrin is a prodigious storyteller."-Elle?
"Perrin's most ambitious, most intimate, most liberating, most important book yet."-Le Parisien
Tata begins with a mystery-Agnes receives a phone call from a local policeman saying she must come to Gueugnon in the French provinces to identify the body of her aunt Colette. This comes as a shock because, as far as Agnes knows, her beloved Aunt Colette died three years earlier. From this call on, Perrin's "most ambitious novel yet" opens into a rich and delectably propulsive mix of multigenerational family saga, suspenseful chase novel, and vibrant testament to the resiliency and ingenuity of women who choose to carve out a destiny of their own.
Tata teems with unforgettable characters-circus performers, piano prodigies, murderers, doppelgaengers, survivors, cops, abusers, footballers, filmmakers and secret lovers, to name a few-and is the most incontrovertible proof thus far that there is nobody better than Valerie Perrin at capturing the ebb and flow of life in all its glorious unpredictability. At the novel's center is Colette, Agnes's beloved tata, her father's sister, whose decision to fake her own death and disappear from the world at first seems inexplicable. From this deception, however, emerges an intricate, beautifully woven story about a remarkable woman told with humor, delicacy, and depth.
WHAT EARLY READERS ARE SAYING
"A cocktail of emotions."
"Magnificent."
"Impossible to put down!"
"A novel you devour and simply cannot close until you've reached the last page."
"Exceptional."
"After reading such a novel, I could stop reading altogether."
Reviews / Votes
"A gripping story about the power of friendship as a safe harbor from abusive families." * Publishers Weekly * "Ideal for fans of Jojo Moyes and Kate Morton." * Booklist * "Perrin's signature gift of transmuting quotidian circumstances into transcendent truths is everywhere apparent." * Foreword Reviews * "Tata is Perrin's most ambitious, most intimate, most liberating, most important book." * Le Parisien * "Valerie Perrin is a prodigious storyteller." * Elle *More details
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Hildegarde Serle graduated in French from Oxford University. After working as a newspaper subeditor in London for many years, she obtained the Chartered Institute of Linguists Diploma in Translation. She is the translator of The Mirror Visitor Quartet.
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