The Turtles' Slow Waltz
This sequal to The Yellow Eyes of the Crocodiles describes relationships between two sisters.
The inspirational main character is in her forties. Joséphine struggles with a divorce, economic problems, a difficult teenage daughter, a tyrannical mother and low self-esteem. She gets entangled in a lie set up by her sister, and becomes her ghost-writer. While she discovers her own talents, she now also struggles with a lack of recognition for her work. It is through those challenges that Joséphine finally grows and finds out who she really is.
The many characters surrounding Joséphine evolve into a web of friendships, betrayals and dreams. Even Florine, the 12th century rebellious young heroine Joséphine creates for her novel, becomes a character in her own right as her destiny unfolds within a well-developed medieval setting.
Easy to read, this page-turner inspires readers to move on, stay positive and not hide from life but embrace it.
Katherine Pancol
Katherine Pancol's insights into human psychology, and particularly women, are amazingly accurate and her sense of details often shaded with wry humor. Her gift to lift people's spirits while providing great entertainment has been key to her success, inspiring many women to dare to be themselves while keeping a positive relationship with life itself. Pancol (born 1954) is a Moroccan-born French novelist. While working for “Paris-Match” and “Cosmopolitan”, she is noticed by an intuitive publisher who encourages her to begin writing. Following the success of her first novel “Moi D'abord” (“Me First”) in 1979, Pancol moves to New York City where she spends the next decade pursuing creative writing and screenwriting classes at Columbia University while producing three more novels “La Barbare” in 1981, “Scarlett, si possible” and “Les hommes cruels ne courent pas les rues”. Her novel “The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles”, published in 2006, has been a huge success in France, where it sold more than one million copies and received the Prix de Maison de la Presse, for largest distribution in France. The novel is the beginning of an extremely successful trilogy, published in Bulgaria. Katherine Pancol was also awarded “Best author 2007” by Gorodets Publishing (Moscow).
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