In Those Arms

Proof copy. 8vo. 217pp. Printed wraps.

Translated by Ian Monk. Originally published as Dans ces bras-là in 2000 by P.O.L. Winner of the Prix Femina.

While sitting in a café, Camille, who has begun divorce proceedings and a new novel, falls in love with a passer-by. Discovering that he is a marriage counsellor, Camille does not see this as an absurd cliché, but as a piece of immense luck – with him, she can get right to the point. "[A] shrewd close-up of a woman struggling to decode her own disastrous marriage." –Emily Nussbaum, The New York Times Book Review