So many emotions and sharing in this story ...

Leonce finds himself overnight, without warning, retired. This work was his life. It allowed him to keep his head above water psychologically and occupied enough to avoid thinking too much.

For that is the real problem: now that Léonce has his days free, what can stop thinking about what her life, watching finally face his true and profound torments, to finally see the person she has become, and that without hating?

Leonce is thus found in a vortex of emotions that she can not manage, and the only way she found not to sink, is anger and bitterness.

But the inhabitants of the Gulls of residence are not stupid, they know that behind its scathing remarks lies a great distress.

I immediately liked this character, Leonce. It will make me laugh more than once, with its well placed replicas and so funny! Sure, our Léonce no lack of humor!

I also shared his indignation when she finds herself in retirement, I shared his pain, bitterness and regret. She retreats gradually in this role it plays beautifully, that of the complainer, who have never happy and that pushes everyone. An enormous weariness sempare her, permanent fatigue, malaise that never leaves. She's convinced the blow that this is the end, inevitably, to feel like that, it can only be seriously ill. But the doctor does not find anything, and for good reason, his discomfort is in his head. And that, unlike the doctor who took it very badly, the people have once again understood.

Unlike Leonce, it did not take me long to succumb to the charms of this small residence and its inhabitants. Whether Regis and devotion to others, Mimosa and this unparalleled kindness, or Chicanos and outspoken, Mireille the sassy and proud of it, and Mama Rose, who heals and comforts with its fabulous cuisine ...

Many characters we love to follow, to discover. Some had life more difficult than others, but all are generous and touching way. They are there for each other, no matter the problems they face.

The author's style is simple but extremely effective. We feel things, whether the pain of Leonce, the imagination of the little Slimane (main character of the novel "The world without adult") and the desire to make the world better Regis. The words transport us, move us, make us travel and make echoes in us. I could almost feel the delicious cuisine of Mama Rose tickle my nostrils through the lines ...

It's good to read novels like that, you come out the heart inflated by saying that perhaps humanity is not lost. We want to believe, you want us also to this solidarity.

In brief, touching words, fictional life stories with a taste of reality that transport us in this small Residence of the Gulls and that makes us want to stay there. To discover!