a beautiful way, unusual and well marked

Simon was nine when his dad discovers one morning curled up in the dishwasher. Unusual situation indeed! His father is a writer (he mainly writes books for others), and his mother worked at Danone, but very often travel to the other side of the world, particularly in Sydney, Australia. The land of kangaroos.
Simon's father through a bad patch, acute depression that requires hospitalization. This is the grandmother Lola, free and unpredictable, who will take care of Simon, who asks a lot of questions about the illness of his father, absence of his mother, their love. The little boy will find a lot of comfort from Lily, a girl whom he meets regularly at the hospital, and who taught him a lot about the illness of his father, just what adults do not tell him.
I liked the idea that for once, it is the father who is in a deep depression status, and mother obsessed with her work, very little present, relatively little mother, it is good from time to time see these usual roles reversed! If I liked the tone of the book, the views of the child, the vividness of the characters around him (Lily, her grandmother Lola), I however found that the pace was a little slow, we began to turning around in circles (perhaps the translation of the deep quagmire of the father in the disease?), until an unexpected revelation gives new meaning to the whole. If the end is somewhat agreed, it just feels good to drive, and I approached the end, the more I finally loved this novel, especially as the character Lily becomes more and more intriguing!