Gratitude

With Gratitude, she has made a bold choice of subject matter … She is swimming energetically against the tide, because this is literary terrain neglected – not to say shunned – by many other novelists … The novel steadily accumulates into a moving tale of how unfinished business can be dealt with without diminishing the dignity of old age

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Poignant * Observer *
A slim but powerful meditation on the nature of gratitude …. As with all the best fiction, what is ordinary has been elevated to the extraordinary … The beating heart of this novel is the exquisite empathy it demonstrates for the elderly and the process of aging … There is a gentle magnificence at work in its pages * Irish Times *
Tender, poignant and heartfelt, this slender volume packs a huge emotional punch … [a] generous novel that celebrates communication, connection and courage * Daily Mail *
Taut and poignant … There’s sadness in this simple tale * Sunday Telegraph *
A short, elegant novel * Saga *
Praise for Delphine de Vigan: ‘Delphine de Vigan’s dark family thrillers are a cult sensation * i *
A moving portrait of aging, devotion and love … It stayed in my thoughts long after reading * Eurolit Network *
The latest literary sensation … It has people in a word-of-mouth frenzy I’ve not seen since Gone Girl * Daily Telegraph *
One of the finest writers of psychological fiction in France today * France Magazine *
You’re kept reading helplessly to the desperate cliffhanger finish * Daily Mail *
Taut and fascinating … A moving tribute to the power the bonds of love * Guardian *
A taut, intense novel of secrets, lies and the unknowable depths of others * Tatler *
Dark, smart, strange, compelling – and tremendously French – Harriet Lane
I’ve never read a book that makes the complex relationship between reality and fiction both as visible, and at the same time so opaque, as here. I was captivated. * Independent *
de Vigan plays with the tropes of the psychological thriller, but her work is steeped in philosophical ruminations – Joanna Briscoe * Guardian *
Frighteningly honest, precise and thrilling * Observer *

Delphine de Vigan is the prize-winning author of bestselling No and Me, which was a Richard & Judy selection in Britain, Nothing Holds Back the Night, Underground Time and Based on a True Story. She lives in Paris.

George Miller is the translator into English of all four of Delphine de Vigan’s titles. He is also a regular translator for Le Monde diplomatique’s English-language edition.