Melie, seventy-two years receives for the first time for all holiday granddaughter, Clara, clarinet, which will come into Cm2 in September. Meanwhile, the old woman learns she has a health concern but decides not to pursue for the moment and do not open the envelope containing the results of its analyzes, determined to enjoy their holiday to the maximum ... And holidays will actually unforgettable for all the little colorful world that revolves around Molly, nicely unbecoming granny but full of love, not only for his lineage but also an old man who fixes everything she knowingly haywire in his house ... This book smells like plum jam, unsentimental love in all its forms, evoked with great delicacy and with all the humor and verve already encountered in the cat * Switch.
Barbara Constantine could have avoided some facilities (to speak furniture) but hey, we forgive him because A Melie without melodrama is a novel that gives a smile, a novel where we take the time to observe the bamboos grow or spider spinning its web, what beautifully extend our stay!