From the critically acclaimed author of Paris or Die and My Sweet Guillotine comes a powerfully written and deeply personal story of ambition, art and human nature in Paris.
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On the métro I ask her if she can see the sea. She points at me. Not la mère, I laugh. La mer! The sea! I can’t see the sea, or myself as a mother, right now. All I see is sneakers and a skateboard and two shabby suitcases, one blue, one red. A soft, sweet head, curls tied up in pigtails, my face in them …
Jayne is a new mother in Paris trying to balance her creative ambition and lust for city life with the instinctual urges of motherhood - and failing.
As her relationship with her husband and the city strains, she searches for answers in a friendship with an older Frenchwoman, the streets, the crowds, in art and writing and new wave cinema… but finds only more questions. Something has to give, but what?
From the critically acclaimed author of Paris or Die and My Sweet Guillotine comes a powerfully written story of desire, art and the complexity of modern womanhood.
Praise for Paris or Die and My Sweet Guillotine:
‘Writing that is joltingly alive, beautiful and terrifying’ – Helen Garner
‘My new favourite writer’ – Lauren Elkin
‘The love child of Helen Garner and David Sedaris’ – Linda Jaivin
‘Jayne Tuttle’s writing is a delicious delight’ – Christos Tsiolkas
‘Emerging as one of our finest’ – The Australian
‘All nerve endings and noticing’ – Claire Thomas
‘A writer who has perfected her craft’ – Ceridwen Dovey
'Terrific, crisp writing … like a latter-day Bonjour Tristesse' – The Age
