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Terrific . . . Easily The Most Purely Entertaining Novel I Have Read So Far This Year David Mills, The Sunday TimesA Really Excellent Suspense Novelist Stephen Kingthe Second Volume Of Pierre LemaitreS Enthralling, AwardWinning BetweenTheWars Trilogyin 1927, The Great And The Good Of Paris Gather At The Funeral Of The Wealthy Banker, Marcel PRicourt. His Daughter, Madeleine, Is Poised To Take Over His Financial Empire (Although, Unfortunately, She Knows Next To Nothing About Banking). More Unfortunately Still, When MadeleineS SevenYearOld Son, Paul, Tumbles From A Second Floor Window Of The PRicourt Mansion On The Day Of His GrandfatherS Funeral, And Suffers LifeChanging Injuries, His Fall Sets Off A Chain Of Events That Will Reduce Madeleine To Destitution And Ruin In A Matter Of Months.Using All Her Reserves Of Ingenuity, Resourcefulness, And A Burning Desire For Retribution, Madeleine Sets About Rebuilding Her Life. She Will Be Helped By An ExCommunist Fixer, A Polish Nurse Who DoesnT Speak A Word Of French, A Brainless Petty Criminal With A Talent For Sabotage, An Exiled German Jewish Chemist, A Very Expensive Forger, An Opera Singer With A Handy Flair For Theatrics, And Her Own Son With Ideas For A Creative New Business To Take Paris By Storm.A Brilliant, Imaginative, FreeFalling Caper Through BetweenTheWars Paris, And A Portrait Of Europe On The Edge Of Disaster.Translated From The French By Frank Wynnefrank Wynne Is An AwardWinning Writer And Translator. His Previous Translations Include Works By Virginie Despentes, Javier Cercas And Michel Houellebecq. His Translation Of Vernon Subutex I Was Shortlisted For The Man Booker International Prize.With The Support Of The Creative Europe Programme Of The European Unionfrom The Reviews For The Great SwindleThe Most Purely Enjoyable Book IVe Read This Year Jake Kerridge, Sunday TelegraphThe Vast Sweep Of The Novel And Its Array Of Extraordinary Secondary Characters Have Attracted Comparisons With The Works Of Balzac. Moving, Angry, Intelligent And Compulsive Marcel Berlins, The Times