Rose Royal
  • Published: 15 March 2022
  • ISBN: 9781635421958
  • Imprint: Other Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $40.00

Rose Royal

A Love Story

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8 Feb 2022
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15 Mar 2022
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From the Goncourt Prize–winning author of And Their Children After Them, a devilishly smart noir novella that finds uncomfortable truths in the everyday about romance, violence, and women’s desire and desirability.

From the Goncourt Prize–winning author of And Their Children After Them, a devilishly smart noir novella that finds uncomfortable truths in the everyday about romance, violence, and women’s desire and desirability.

Nearing fifty, with a divorce and a string of other failed relationships behind her, Rose has given up on the idea of love, if not sex—though that always comes with risks. Determined not to let another man hurt her, she even ordered a .38 caliber handgun after an argument with her latest boyfriend almost turned violent. Now she carries it everywhere, just in case.
 
As if on autopilot, Rose spends her days at work and then at the Royal, a familiar haunt where she knocks back one drink after another, sometimes with her best friend Marie-Jeanne. And then a sudden accident brings Luc into the bar, and Rose decides to give love one last chance.
  • Published: 15 March 2022
  • ISBN: 9781635421958
  • Imprint: Other Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $40.00
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Praise for And Their Children After Them:
 
“[A] page-turner…It is easy to see why this novel, which arrives just on time and contains the secret history of the current political upheaval, would find such critical acclaim…I couldn’t put the book down. I didn’t want it to end.” —New York Times Book Review
 
“A novel that is delightfully detached and disabused, and yet knows when to let down its guard and be moving.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
 
“A masterly, far-reaching exploration of a de-industrialized country which ‘treated its families like a minor footnote to society’…And Their Children After Them invites comparison with the great realist and naturalist writers of the French nineteenth century.” —Times Literary Supplement