Michèle Forbes
Invited to the 2019 Books & Music Festival
Invited to the 2019 Books & Music Festival
In her first novel, Phalène fantôme, Michèle Forbes was inspired by her own mother. In her second novel, Edith and Olivier, her grandfather serves as a model for the character of Oliver, evoking the end of a world, that of the small itinerant music hall, which is declining in favor of more modern pleasures such as the cinema. Michèle Forbes, who was an actor before becoming a novelist, delved into family memories and Irish archives to write this fascinating and poignant novel.
