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Love in idleness: The Four Corners of the Heart, by Françoise Sagan, reviewed

In an atmosphere of languid torpor on a French family estate, an unfortunate relationship develops between a son, a father and a mother-in-law

15 July 2023

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The Four Corners of the Heart: An Unfinished Novel Françoise Sagan

Amazon Crossing, pp.173, 6.99

Do not be alarmed. You have not suffered a blow to the head. Françoise Sagan, the author of the 1954 phenomenon Bonjour Tristesse (published when she was 18; two million copies sold), is indeed no longer with us. She died in 2004, aged 69. Yet here is her brand new novel, recovered by her son Denis Westhoff from the mass – and presumably mess – of her papers.

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