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A Cage in Search of a Bird: (The French List)
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Florence Noiville (Author) Teresa Lavender Fagan (Contributor)
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Now in paperback, A Cage in Search of a Bird is the gripping story of two women caught in the vise of a terrible delusion.
Laura Wilmote is a television journalist living in Paris. Her life couldn't be better-a stimulating job, a loving boyfriend, interesting friends-until her phone rings in the middle of one night. It is C., an old school friend whom Laura recently helped find a job at the same television station: "My phone rang. I knew right away it was you."
Thus begins the story of C.'s unrelenting, obsessive, incurable love/hatred of Laura. She is convinced that Laura shares her love, but cannot-or will not-admit it. C. begins to dress as Laura, to make her friends and family her own, and even succeeds in working alongside Laura on the unique program that is Laura's signature achievement. The obsession escalates, yet is artfully hidden. It is Laura who is perceived as the aggressor at work, Laura who appears unwell, Laura who is losing it. Even Laura's adoring boyfriend begins to question her. Laura seeks the counsel of a psychiatrist who diagnoses C. with De Clerambault syndrome-she is convinced that Laura is in love with her. And worse, the syndrome can only end in one of two ways: the death of the patient, or that of the object of the obsession.
A Cage in Search of a Bird is the gripping story of two women caught in the vise of a terrible delusion. Florence Noiville brilliantly narrates this story of obsession and one woman's attempts to escape the irrational love of another-an inescapable, never-ending love, a love that can only end badly. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
About the Author
Florence Noiville, author and journalist, has been a staff writer for Le Monde since 1994, and editor of foreign fiction for Le Monde des Livres, the paper's literary supplement. She is the author of many books, including most recently, Attachment, also published by Seagull Books. Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago.
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- Contributor: Florence Noiville
- Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
- ISBN13: 9780857428745
- Number of Pages: 190
- Packaged Dimensions: 127x203x15mm
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
- Release Date: 2021-08-12
- Series: The French List
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Florence Noiville, author and journalist, has been a staff writer for Le Monde since 1994, and editor of foreign fiction for Le Monde des Livres, the paper's literary supplement. She is the author of many books, including most recently, Attachment, also published by Seagull Books. Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago.
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