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Crossed Lines
Published 29 September 2020
ISBN 9781911231349
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 304pp
AU Price $29.99
NZ Price $37.00

Crossed Lines

  • Translated by Penny Hueston
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29 Sept 2020
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29 Sept 2020
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For fans of Rachel Cusk, Crossed Lines is a critique of a woman’s midlife, middle-class crisis of conscience, told through the astute and clever voice of one of France’s most prolific writers. Translated by Penny Hueston.

When her mother offers Rose a Mediterranean cruise with her two children, she jumps at the chance to get away from her husband who drinks too much, and the renovations of their holiday house in the south. But one night the cruise ship comes upon a shipwrecked boat full of refugees, who are taken aboard. Without telling her teenage son, Rose gives his mobile phone to a young Nigerian refugee. Does she want to be some kind of a hero, ease her conscience? Now what is she in for? The secret phone connection takes Rose and her family on a journey of discovery.

With her trademark wit and acid intelligence, Marie Darrieussecq, like Rachel Cusk or Jenny Offill, shines a light on issues of individual responsibility in our complex world.
Published 29 September 2020
ISBN 9781911231349
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 304pp
AU Price $29.99
NZ Price $37.00
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About the authors

Marie Darrieussecq

Marie Darrieussecq was born in Bayonne in 1969. Her first novel, Pig Tales, was translated into thirty-five languages. She has published more than twenty books and been awarded numerous prizes. Text has published Tom Is Dead, All the Way, Men, Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, Our Life in the Forest, The Baby, Crossed Lines, Sleepless and How to Make a Woman. Darrieussecq has written art criticism and journalism, is a translator from English and has practised as a psychoanalyst. She lives in Paris.
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Penny Hueston - Translator

Penny Hueston’s translations from French include novels by Emmanuelle Salasc, Patrick Modiano, Sarah Cohen-Scali and Raphaël Jerusalmy. She has translated eight books by Marie Darrieussecq and has been shortlisted for the JQ-Wingate Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, twice for the Scott Moncrief Prize, and twice for the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize. She was the winner of the 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation.
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Also by Marie Darrieussecq

How to Make a Woman
Sleepless
The Baby
Our Life in the Forest
Being Here
Men
All the Way
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Rights for Crossed Lines

Rights held: UK & Comm (excl Canada)