Sans Moi

by Marie Desplechin (Author), Marie Desplechin (Author), Marie Desplechin (Author)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.23

  The narrator, educated and professional, could not be more different from her babysitter Olivia, a sometime prostitute getting off on heroin. Confronted by the challenges of life, the two find that companionship, intimacy and humour create a friendship full of vitality and respect.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.23

  A publishing phenomenon which has sold over 120,000 copies in France 'Leaves you feeling better prepared for life . . . the deepest emotions and the most delicate feelings are evoked with an astonishing economy of means.' Paris Vogue When she needs a babysitter for her two children, the narrator of Sans Moi hires Olivia - recovering drug user, sometime prostitute, brought up in care. One might have thought she was adding to her burdens. But life is not just a question of the past, and people are not simply the products of their worst experiences. Confronted by the challenges of loneliness and change, the narrator realizes that Olivia has as much to give her as she has needs of her own. In the year they live together, companionship, intimacy and humour create a friendship full of vitality and mutual respect.