A secret Kept
To be published in the USA by Saint Martin's Press on September 14 2010 and  to be published in 2011 at Pan Macmillan (UK)  (Original title "Boomerang')

Antoine Rey thought he had the perfect surprise for his sister’s birthday: a weekend by the sea, at Noirmoutier, where he and Mélanie used to spend their childhood holidays and where they had never returned. Antoine is at a fragile point in his existence: his job no longer holds any excitement, his children are surly teenagers, and he hates being a divorced, single Dad. Noirmoutier triggers off a flock of forgotten memories and Mélanie has a shocking flashback. Trapped between a taboo family secret and a new crisis when his daughter is confronted with the death of her best friend, nothing is easy for Antoine as a son, a husband, a brother and a father. But then he meets streetwise, sexy Angèle, a mortician who will give new meanings to the words life, love and death.

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Sarah's Key

Are Sarah and her family based on people who really existed in 1942 ? No, Sarah and her family come straight out of my imagination. But my daughter Charlotte, who was 11 years old when I wrote this book, was a major source of inspiration for Sarah. Sarah’s brother’s destiny is also an event I imagined, although I do believe it could have happened in real life.

Are you Julia Jarmond ?
No, although many of my readers think so ! Julia is American, I am half- English, half –French. I have a wonderful husband who has nothing to do with Julia’s arrogant husband, Bertrand ! I do not have a daughter called Zoe, but a son named Louis and a daughter, Charlotte, who are now 20 and 18. The only thing I have in common with Julia is that we are the same age and are both journalists.

How long did it you take to write Sarah’s Key ?
It took me one year to research it, two years to write it, and two years to get it published !

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