L Attachement

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When Anna finds the long letter her mother wrote, her mother is already dead. Taking her secret with her. The letter is addressed to her first great love, a teacher many years older than she was, but so much less approachable. Did Marie ever send the letter? Did this man receive it? Anna makes enquiries with family and old friends, and tries to understand what the connection was between her mother and this teacher. Who was this much loved man? Is he still alive? Would finding him help Anna understand the mother who died when she herself was fourteen?
Taking this snippet of passionate love as a starting point and scrutinising it from various different points of view, both mother and daughter try to answer the same question: what is it that happens to us when we develop an attachment for someone we should never have come near?
Florence Noiville is a journalist at Le Monde. Attachment is her second novel after La Donation which was published in 2007. She is also the author of Isaac B. Singer (winner of the 2003 prix du récit biographique) and J'ai fait HEC et je m'en excuse (2009), as well as several works for young adults.