La famille, l’amour, la Bretagne, tous les ingrédients d’une jolie histoire.
Ils sont nombreux, les marins de Saint-Malo qui détestent Joël Carriban ! Ce blanc-bec qui prétend remettre à flot l’entreprise familiale qu’il a lui-même failli couler huit ans plus tôt. Mais Joël est un vrai Carriban, un Breton gagnant, entêté et fier.
Il est revenu pour le souvenir de son père. Et pour la mer.
Malgré les difficultés qui s’accumulent, nombreuses, et malgré la jeune fille dont il tombe éperdument amoureux. La seule sur laquelle il n’aurait jamais dû lever les yeux.
Françoise Bourdin was born listening to opera. Her parents, both opera singers, helped her to develop an appreciation for strong characters and destinies, and for the music of words. As a teenager, she discovered horseback riding and it became her exclusive hobby. She dedicated her teens to this passion and to reading the works of classical authors that she discovered in her father’s huge library. Bourdin started to write short stories when she was very young. Her first novel was published by Editions Julliard when she was only twenty. Writing became the most important thing in her life and her second novel, two years later, was adapted for TV.
Her fiction describes family stories, secrets, and passions. She values brave characters who face life boldly and never give up when confronted with adversity. Since 1994, she has written thirty books, three of which have been adapted for television. Her readership continues to grow with each novel.
Bourdin has two daughters and lives in a beautiful home in Normandy. She writes every day, always with the same pleasure, the most beautifully human and moving stories. She knows how to express our deepest emotions and to write stories that resemble our own lives.
Françoise Bourdin, née en 1952 à Paris, est un écrivain français. Elle est mariée à un médecin et a deux filles, Fabienne, née 1981, et Frédérique, née 1982.
Elle commence à écrire des nouvelles à 16 ans. Elle publie son premier roman en 1972, Les Soleils mouillés. En 1973, son second roman, De vagues herbes hautes est choisi par Josée Dayan pour réaliser son premier téléfilm — avec comme interprète Laurent Terzieff. Depuis, elle a publié près d'une trentaine de livres. Elle est aussi scénariste de profession pour la télévision, beaucoup de ses romans ont été adaptés à la télévision.
Es una historia continuamente entretenida, si más. Lo que ocurre es bastante previsible aunque hay algunas reflexiones que están bien y la ambientación es bastante buena. Posiblemente no sea la mejor novela de esta autora tan prolífica y no descarto leer alguna más para practicar el idioma puesto que su prosa es ágil y como he dicho entretenida.
Emprunté à la bibliothèque. Comme tous les livres de Françoise Bourdon, se lit vite, facilement. J'y retrouve régulièrement les mêmes thèmes : secrets de famille, changements de vie, histoires d'amour... J'apprécie particulièrement lire ses livres qui prennent place en Bretagne, comme celui ci, car Françoise Bourdon sait très bien retranscrire l'atmosphère d'une ville comme Saint-Malo ou Dinard. Un auteur que je lis quand une panne de lecture se fait sentir.
Françoise BOURDIN a le chic pour les romances, le titre du roman est alléchant sauf que le récit n'est pas à la hauteur de nos attentes. Une séparation spontanée suite au décès prématuré du père armateur connu à St Malo. Des époux qui se consolent trop rapidement avec d'autres par jeu et par jalousie.
Un fils héritier trop vite amoureux de sa secrétaire
Eight years ago, Joel made a terrible mistake and left after a terrible quarrel with his father, the powerful owner of a fishing fleet in Saint Malo. Now his father has suddenly died and Joel realizes that he wants to continue the family business and live in the house where he grew up. His elegant Parisian wife, Charlotte, does not want to live in what she considers the boondocks and initiates divorce proceedings, using their daughter Juliette as a bargaining chip. Joel has to deal with the failing fishing business, the resistance of the old employees and especially the hatred of old Yann, who lost his job eight years ago as a direct result of Joel's youthful folly. But Yann's daughter, the lovely Servane, is constantly in Joel's life, first as his sister's trusted babysitter, then as his own secretary. Joel ends up by gaining the respect of the old fishermen in Saint Malo when he uses dramatic and expensive means to save the crew of a fishing boat with motor trouble during a dangerous storms. With the help of Servane, he also avoids becoming victimized by Charlotte's manipulations.
Francoise Bourdin specializes in family sagas, often with a generation-old business and a big family mansion at the heart of a contentious transition from a patriarch to a new leader. There is usually a love story woven in, as well. Handsome men and elegant women abound, the champagne flows freely and the dinners are always succulent. And in passing one often learns something about a traditional occupation. In this book it's the fishing business, in "L'Heritier des Beaulieu" it was printing, and in another book it's all about vineyards. This is beach literature with a unique French flavor. The French is not too hard, and so this is ideal for people who want to read a book about French people with French concerns.