Used book – The Angel's Wink, Françoise Mallet-Joris

We have all experienced, at least once, a moment where our destiny could have changed if we had wanted it to... The characters in Françoise Mallet-Joris's novel series experience this decisive moment. Seven places... Seven couples. But one theme, one story... In Antwerp, at a fair, Ludovic, a bourgeois painter, discovers "the knitting mermaid." In a clinic, a famous novelist confronts suffering and death alongside Odile, a nurse, who reveals to him the joys and sorrows of the humble. It is in the Greek Villa in Beaulieu-sur-Mer that Catherine, a "modern" young woman, understands in a flash that Patrick and she, newly married, will one day separate. The curator of the Daleyve Clock Museum is shaken by the act of vandalism committed by a young madwoman. A gay couple celebrates an anniversary at the Venice Opera. It is in Nantucket, the whaling town immortalized by Melville, that a grandfather will discover and love his grandson. Did Sylvia have to die of a heart attack at Disneyland for Julien to understand that he owed everything to this woman he married forty years earlier? It is undoubtedly in "Disneyland, in all the Disneylands of the world, that we must seek the key to our fantasies and our dreams among monsters, dwarves, giants, planets..." And the Angel smiles...