This is the first novel I've read by French author Geneviève Dormann. This book was published in 1971 and set in France during the 60's. Readers follow a beautiful red head young woman from her first marriage at a young age til her mid-thirties. The book presents the new kind of woman, who's disappointed by dreams of marriage and wants to live free and differently from her mother. She's a rebel compared to parts of society who wishes for adventure, freedom, and real love.
The writing style of the author is partly confusing. Readers follow the leading character throughout her life, but several the author writes a chapter narrated by a third party about the leading character. Other times the author writes sentences, descriptions in series that don't make sense or irrevelant to the story as if it to fill up pages. I just got bored with this confusing writing style used. The pace of the story is slow. The leading character's story is actually not creative and the woman is never assertive in her decisions and always dependant on men. It might seem to be a feminist novel, but it is not.