by Madeleine Mansiet-Berthaud · Presses de la Cité · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782258148093
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«La valse des mouettes» is the historical novel by Madeleine Mansiet-Berthaud, published by Presses de la Cité in paperback (363 pages, in French).
Gabrielle, a young woman raised in the fishing village of Meschers, on the Gironde estuary, sees her dream come true of working as an assistant at the Cordouan lighthouse, though that place brings back the memory of her mother, who died in a shipwreck years earlier. Among the lighthouse keepers is Alexis, with whom she falls in love. With the war and the German occupation, the coast is transformed by the Atlantic Wall and the blackout of the lights; Gabrielle uncovers family secrets and a destiny that carries her far from her own.
It belongs to the Terres de France collection from Presses de la Cité. A 363-page novel in paperback; original French edition, published in 2018.
For readers of historical fiction and stories set in a maritime atmosphere in France of the 1930s and the Second World War.
