Used book – La femme coquelicot, Noëlle Châtelet

Marthe is seventy years old. One might think that this is no longer the age of passion. Yet, she will allow herself to experience it with Félix, the man with multicolored scarves, ten years her senior... A passion made of the wonder of souls and also of bodies. Everything that a long life as a wife and mother did not give her.

Children and grandchildren, who had rather quickly classified her under "senior citizen" and "doting grandmother," will have to witness Marthe's metamorphosis into this poppy-red woman, radiant and fragile, completely happy to love and be loved.

This is a taboo subject that the novelist of "La Femme en bleu" unveils here, in an era where old age is ordered to be ashamed or defeated. She handles it with a grace, an emotion, and also a humor that have earned her an enthusiastic reception from critics and the public.