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80 pages, Pocket Book
First published January 1, 2007
She is thirty, which is almost twenty. He fifty, which might as well be sixty.He’s the one who’s struggling. She, because she’s clearly a very nice person, is trying to make things easy for him and in doing so is prolonging his suffering. Because, like all us blokes, no matter how old we are there’s a part of us that refuses to (or is incapable of) growing up:
He’s still seventeen. Hell, how long’s he going to go on being seventeen? Why can’t his heart age like his skin and his eyes? In ten years’ time, or twenty, will he still be tormented by passionate longings he can’t even hope to fulfil? Is it a sign of strength, weakness, or madness, not being able to grow old?This is a slim book that only covers two days with very little background. “The heroine,” as Le Tellier names her, is in Scotland visiting her mother and is soon to be met by “the Other”—her actual boyfriend—meaning “the hero” has to catch a plane from Paris to Inverness for just a few hours wandering around the Highlands with a young woman who won’t even hold his hand. What does he expect to achieve?
Why do we always push harder on the remote control when the batteries are dying?A slight, slightly sad but still endearing read. Not a masterpiece but if you have to fly from, say, Paris to Inverness this would make the flight that bit more bearable.