Fiction
Les maisons
by Fanny Britt
Description
Tessa is a thirty-seven-year-old real estate agent living in Montreal. She adores her
husband and three young sons, but she’s deeply unhappy and questioning the set
of choices that have led to her present life. After a surprising run-in with Francis,
her ex-boyfriend and first love, Tessa arranges to see him. As the day of her meeting
with Francis draws closer, she must decide if she’s willing to disrupt her stable, loving
family life for an uncertain future with him.
With startling clarity and emotional force, Fanny Britt gives us a complex portrait of
a woman and a marriage from the inside out.
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Rights sold: Canada (House of Anansi Press – World
English) and Audible Audiobooks (World French)
Reviews
“Fanny Britt’s Hunting Houses is as transparent and true a picture of startling, soul-seizing, everyday love as you’ll ever come across in fiction. Think Chekhov’s Lady with Lapdog or poor Madame Bovary or Anna Karenina — if those women
were to fall in love in ’80s Montreal.”
— Lisa Moore, award-winning author of February and Caught
• “In capturing and sustaining that intense emotional pitch, the novel is spiritual kin to Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Adult Onset and Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin. Comparisons to such prominent female novelists aren’t idle. At certain points, this reader felt he was getting as close as he may ever come to hearing how women talk when men aren’t around.”
— Ian McGillis, Montreal Gazette, July 2017
Author Biography
Fanny Britt is a novelist, playwright and translator from Montreal. Les maisons was
Finalist for the 2016 France-Québec prize, in addition to being named Finalist for
the 2017 Prix littéraire des collégiens and Finalist for the 2016 Chambéry prize for
new authors. Fanny is also the author of the graphic novel Jane, the Fox and Me, which has been translated in nine languages. The book
was selected by the New York Times as one of the ten best illustrated books of 2014.
Le Cheval d'août
Le Cheval d'août is an independent publishing company located in Montréal (Québec, Canada) that specializes in fictional contemporary literature, from the novel to non-fictional genres. Passionate about new voices, original and pertinent forms, its catalog has quickly acquired a name for itself and has won the favors of critics and readers. Its authors have earned several distinctions, are translated in Canada and in Europe, and have seen their books enjoy a second life through various adaptations.
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- Publication Date October 2015
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- ISBN/Identifier 9782924491119
- Publication Country or regionCanada
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 23.95 CAD
- Pages232
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2015
- Dimensions20,5 x 14 cm
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