Quand leur mère les dépose devant la grille du Château de Berléac en leur promettant de revenir les chercher, India et Louis ne savent pas ce qui les attend. Ils vont devoir passer en un éclair de leur petite maison dans un lotissement à un château du XVIIIe siècle et apprendre les codes d’une grande famille bordelaise, fière de son vignoble et de ses ancêtres. Que de secrets, de trahisons, d’avidité dans cette demeure prestigieuse où chacun joue un rôle et entend occuper le devant de la scène ! Sans le vouloir, avec leur candeur et leur fantaisie, les enfants vont tout dynamiter. C’est drôle, c’est tragique, c’est virevoltant, cruel et tendre, c’est la vie. Grâce à son inventivité délurée, sa passion des mots et son immense talent de conteuse, Katherine Pancol est devenue l'une des écrivaines françaises les plus lues dans le monde (elle est traduite dans 34 pays dont les États-Unis). Elle est l’autrice de 20 romans – entre autres de la saga des Yeux jaunes des crocodiles et des Muchachas, trilogies qui sont de formidables succès de librairie. Sans oublier les autres, bien sûr !
Author
Katherine Pancol moved from Casablanca to France when she was five. She studied literature and initially became a French and Latin teacher, before turning to journalism. While working for Paris-Match and Cosmopolitan, she is noticed by an intuitive publisher who encourages her to begin writing. Following the success of her first novel Moi D'abord (Me First) in 1979, Pancol moves to New York City where she spends the next decade pursuing creative writing and screenwriting classes at Columbia University while producing three more novels La Barbare in 1981, Scarlett, si possible and Les hommes cruels ne courent pas les rues. Influenced by the American way of life, her style becomes even more enjoyable, action packed and fast paced. Pancol's insights into human psychology, and particularly women, are amazingly accurate and her sense of details often shaded with wry humor. Her gift to lift people's spirits while providing great entertainment has been key to her success, inspiring many women to dare to be themselves while keeping a positive relationship with life itself. Her novel The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (published in 2006) has been a huge success in France, where it sold more than one million copies and received the "Prix de Maison de la Presse, 2006" for largest distribution in France. Katherine Pancol was awarded "Best author 2007" by Gorodets Publishing (Moscow). The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles was the 6th best sold book in France in 2008 (Le Figaro Littéraire). The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles is already being translated into Russian, Chinese, Ukrainian, Polish, Italian, Korean, Vietnamese and Norwegian. Katherine Pancol is divorced and has two grown children. She lives in Paris, France where she is currently writing the third sequel to The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles. Pancol updates her blog every week on her web-site (http://www.katherine-pancol.com). - from Wikipedia
