« Ceci est l'histoire de Kay Bartholdi. Un jour, Kay est entrée dans mon restaurant. Elle a posé une grosse liasse de lettres sur la table. Elle m'a dit: Tu en fais ce que tu veux, je ne veux plus les garder. » Ainsi commence ce roman par lettres comme on en écrivait au XVIIIe siècle. Il raconte la liaison épistolaire de Kay Bartholdi, libraire à Fécamp, et d'un inconnu qui lui écrit pour commander des livres. Au fil des lettres, le ton devient moins officiel, plus inquisiteur, plus tendre aussi. Kay et Jonathan parlent de leurs lectures, certes, mais entament un vrai dialogue amoureux. Ils se font des scènes, ils se font des confidences, ils se tendent des pièges, s'engagent dans une relation que Kay, hantée par le souvenir d'une déchirure ancienne, s'efforce de repousser. Mais qui pourrait prédire vers quelle révélation l'emmène ce nouveau lien noué à travers des livres dont chacun des correspondants se sert comme de masques pour cacher ses vrais sentiments ? Dis-moi ce que tu lis, je te dirai qui tu es et comment tu aimes... semble dire ce nouveau roman de Katherine Pancol, auteur, entre autres, d' Embrassez-moi, J'étais là avant ou Les hommes cruels ne courent pas les rues .
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
