![]() ![]() ![]() She is to all intents and purposes a young playmate for Raymond.įor the past couple of years, Cécile has been living the high life with her father, accompanying him to glamorous parties and sharing his fondness for amusement and frivolity. ![]() Also staying with them at their beautiful villa in the South of France is Raymond’s latest lover, a tall red-haired girl named Elsa. At forty, Raymond – a widower for the past fifteen years – seems young and vibrant for his age he is an attractive man ‘full of life and possibilities’. Seventeen-year-old Cécile is spending the summer on the Cote d’Azur with her father, Raymond. Bonjour Tristesse might just be the perfect holiday read. It is a wonderful book, an irresistible story of love, frivolity and the games a young girl plays with other people’s emotions, all set against the backdrop of a heady summer on the French Riviera. On its publication in 1954, the book was an instant sensation, flying off the shelves and making a celebrity of its author in the process. Françoise Sagan was just eighteen when she wrote her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse. ![]()
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