Elles ont l'air de madones et fomentent le meurtre dans les plis et les replis de leurs âmes. N'avons-nous pas tous rencontré ces amies trop serviables, ces secrétaires trop dévouées, ces mères trop complices qui mènent la danse sous le masque du sacrifice et de l'abnégation ? Violemment, vicieusement vertueuses, elles usent de la bonté comme d'une arme. Court, contemporain, féroce : Alexandra Lapierre s'amuse... Biographe des femmes oubliées, elle s'insinue dans les secrets de cinq héroïnes aux destinées aussi baroques qu'inattendues. Dans ces intrigues pleines d'ironie, elle nous emporte dans un monde qui semble appartenir au passé, et renoue avec la grande tradition du roman d'analyse. Rome... Les dernières années du vingtième Siècle... Les petits crimes moraux des Laissées-pour-compte...
Author
Alexandra Lapierre has won international acclaim for her writing. Her works have been widely translated and she has received numerous awards, including the Honorary Award of the Association of American University Women. She earned an MFA degree in 1981 from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. The daughter of the writer Dominique Lapierre, she was brought up surrounded by books. At the Sorbonne in Paris, she learned how to research. And, she said, her studies at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and the University of Southern California taught her how to tell a story, "something we have forgotten a bit in French literature today." She was voted Woman of Culture by the city of Rome, Italy, and has been nominated Chevalier in the “Order of Arts and Letters” by the French government. Her most recent work, L’Excessive, was an immediate best seller in Europe and is being developed for a television series. Alexandra Lapierre lives in Paris.
