Rivage de la colère / Shores of Anger – Caroline Laurent

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Author:

Caroline Laurent

Publication Date:

Les Escales
January 2020

Rights Sold

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Shores of Anger

Rights Holder: Les Escales
Original Langue: French
Sample English available

From the co-author of Et soudain la liberté with over 75 000 copies sold and winner of the Grand Prix des Lycéennes d'Elle

The epic love story of two people from entirely different worlds that have to constantly fight against outside forces keeping them apart…Based on historical events that are still relevant today!

Marie, a strong-willed and independent women of the Chagos archipelago falls in love at first sight with the strikingly handsome Gabriel, the newly arrived secretary to the archipelago’s Mauritian administrator. Passions flare, Marie quickly falls pregnant, and their son Josephin is born. This new family has nothing but a bright future to look forward to.

But it’s the late 1960s and Mauritius votes to gain independence from Britain. The inhabitants of the archipelago, a dependency of Mauritius, could not know that the Mauritius government would betray them. A secret deal with Britain means that everyone from Chagos will be forced to leave the islands, never allowed to return to home.

While Gabriel knows everything about these political machinations through his job, he is forced to keep it secret from Marie and the other islanders. Just as Marie is devastated to realize that Gabriel hid the truth from her, they are dramatically separated in the chaos of the forced evacuation, not knowing if they will ever be reunited.

In Mauritius, Marie struggles to build a life for herself and Josephin. Meanwhile, Gabriel does everything in his power to be with her and their son but family, secrets and history in the making continue to keep them apart.

Caroline Laurent is French-Mauritian. After the success of Et soudain, la liberté, this is her first novel written on her own.

Praise for ET SOUDAIN LA LIBERTÉ...

"A celebration of life, a life that is remembered long after the book is closed."
—Françoise Dargent. Le Figaro

"A vibrant and exciting narrative."—Claire Julliard. L’Obs

"What contributes to the richness of this book is the quality of its writing, which makes two voices, two generations intertwine"
—Cëlia Safer, Elle Magazine