by Barbara Constantine · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253157731
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«Tom, petit Tom, tout petit homme, Tom» is the novel by Barbara Constantine, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (214 pages, in French).
Tom, aged eleven, lives with his mother Joss, who prefers to go out partying and leave him alone. To eat, he steals from other people's vegetable gardens and fears ending up in social services. One night he finds Madeleine, aged ninety-three, fallen among her cabbages, and stops to help her.
It won the Prix Charles-Exbrayat in 2010. The novel was originally published in 2010 and this paperback edition appeared in March 2011.
For readers of contemporary fiction and French literature; interested in stories about childhood loneliness, old age and mutual help.
