Beside the Sea

A single mother takes her two sons on a trip to the seaside. They stay in a hotel, drink hot chocolate and go to the funfair. She wants to protect them from a cold and uncomprehending world. She knows that it will be the last trip for her boys. This is a haunting and thought-provoking story about how a mother's love for her children can be more dangerous than the dark world she is seeking to keep at bay. Veronique Olmi handles an aspect of motherhood we all too often deny. She depicts a woman's fear of releasing her children into the world. The simple first person narrative achieves an extraordianry level of poetry and inner truth. The French literary bestseller, first published in 2001, has been translated into all major European languages and is now for the first time available in English.

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"This is a mesmerising portrait ... It should be read." Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian "The closing pages are heart-stopping and heartbreaking, yet one finishes this sad tale not depressed but uplifted by its ability to enlarge the reader's sympathies." Chris Schuler, The Independent "With the skill of a thriller writer, the mother-narrator propels you forward and, as the awful climax approaches, compels you to question profoundly your own life and relationship." Rosie Goldsmith, BBC "This novel tears your heart apart - Veronique Olmi, than you for this marvellous novel." Journal du Dimanche "A short novel full of wisdom and sadness. If you forget this book, you haven't read it." Suddeutsche Zeitung

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Veronique Olmi war born in 1962 and lives in Paris. She is a highly acclaimed French dramatist and her twelve plays have won numerous awards. Bord de Mer, published in 2001, was her first novel. Since then she has published four more. Adriana Hunter has translated more than 40 books from the French including works by Agnes Desarthe, Amelie Nothomb, Frederic Beigbeder, Veronique Ovalde and Catherine Millet. She has been short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize twice.

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