Hello, sadness

Author: [French] Fran?oise Sagan
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The protagonist of the novel—the girl Cécile—is inherently romantic and unrestrained, living a whimsical and chaotic life with her equally free-spirited father. She is unwilling to bring her life onto a conventional track. For this reason, she does her utmost to prevent her long-widowed father Raymond from marrying his girlfriend Anna. In Cécile's eyes, Anna is a proper and disciplined woman who follows the rules. Once she enters family life, not only will Raymond have to submit to her control, but Cécile's unconventional lifestyle will also have to change. She will have to follow Anna's upbringing plan and become a well-behaved girl. Therefore, Cécile, along with her newly met boyfriend and a woman her father had known earlier, Elisa, meticulously devised a scheme. The scheme actually succeeded. The free-spirited Raymond once again neglected Anna and renewed his old flame with the younger and even more unrestrained Elisa. However, what Cécile did not expect was that this reckless behavior led to Anna becoming mentally distraught, getting into a car accident, and ultimately dying on a cliff.