by Michel Jeury, Alain Grousset · Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266132220
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«Nounou» is the realist novel by Michel Jeury and Alain Grousset, published by Pocket in paperback (599 pages, in French).
Paris, 1888: Céline, a young woman from Saulieu, arrives in the capital to work as a wet nurse and enters the service of the Langlais family, where Alphonse Daudet and Gustave Eiffel cross paths. Her beauty awakens desire in the men of the house: the son tries to seduce her and a tutor declares his love, while she begins to dream of another life.
The novel was originally published in 2002; this Pocket edition, in paperback, is from November 2004.
For readers of realist fiction interested in 19th-century France and the living conditions of working women.
Michel Jeury was a French science fiction writer, reputed in the 1970s. He also used the pseudonym of Albert Higon.
