It is the story of a century of "bad girls" - quotes are needed - that Delphine Coulin embraces.
Oh!
do not look behind this expression for occult activity or which would lead to brothels.
No, if these women are considered "bad", it is because they want to follow their desires, because they want to be free.
It is this heightened feeling of freedom that is the guiding thread of the novel.
A fierce desire for independence which animates a female character born at the end of the 19th century and crosses the following generations.
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Here is the fate of four women from the same family over more than a hundred years.
There is Georges (that's her first name, chosen by her parents so that she can have a man's life!), Lucie, her daughter-in-law, Solange, the granddaughter who seems different from all of them, then Octavie , the great-granddaughter.
The latter decides to investigate her ancestors.
A hell of a challenge, we quickly understand, because the history of women is a story
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