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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