In May 1981 François Mitterand, perhaps to the surprise, is elected President of the French Republic. The Socialist Party is finally at the head of the ship "France", and he exults. Four friends in major trouble, also exult; and that, in their native Britain. These young people are not yet adults and yet, like the entire human race, personality, although malleable, is already partly built. Their education, the events they have previously faced, the environment in which they grew up, have had because of what they have become and will eventually become. Twenty five years later, we find each of the four protagonists in his fifties living. These twenty-five years were synonymous battles, confusion, disillusionment, whatever the social success or private course of a given character; and it seems none have successfully flourish fully and is still in search of his own happiness ... as the country in which they live: formerly envied and older. This portrait of François Roux, in addition to being very (very) well written, of four young childhood friends living in the provinces and from the middle class (and average) than French is very convincing, and provides a comprehensive drawing what has become of France, in a globalized world, global. The search for happiness, the media, capitalism, the world turns and forces everyone to adjust to the undeniable social and economic upheavals, are alternately exposed in this comprehensive and humane novel. Our doubts, our aspirations, our emotions inevitably find themselves in one of the lines of this exciting story.
