Tata (PB) - C-format

Valérie Perrin's first new novel since her breakout bestseller Fresh Water for Flowers. Tata begins with a mystery - Agnes receives a phone call from a local policeman saying she must come to Gueugnon in the French provinces to identify the body of her aunt Colette. This comes as a shock because, as far as Agnes knows, her beloved Aunt Colette died three years earlier. From this call on, Perrin's "most ambitious novel yet" opens into a rich and delectably propulsive mix of multigenerational family saga, suspenseful chase novel, and vibrant testament to the resiliency and ingenuity of women who choose to carve out a destiny of their own. Tata teems with unforgettable characters - circus performers, piano prodigies, murderers, survivors, cops, abusers, footballers, filmmakers and secret lovers, to name a few - and is the most incontrovertible proof thus far that there is nobody better than Valérie Perrin at capturing the ebb and flow of life in all its glorious unpredictability. An intricate, beautifully woven story about a remarkable woman told with humor, delicacy, and depth. "Valérie Perrin is a prodigious storyteller." - Elle. "Perrin's most ambitious, most intimate, most liberating, most important book yet." - Le Parisien.