With these "squirrels" is very uneven - certain passages devour, others let fly without real interest.
Some characters are well chewed and are found with pleasure Hortense, fascinating, Zoe, endearing, Gary, Philip, Josephine, even if we want to kick his ass for half the book to act last, Shirley, although it regrets that it starts to doubt it too.
However there is a whole section of the book that annoyed me: Josiane / Marcel with their dialogues of another age, Junior or how to pour into the fantastic to the detriment of the coherence of the book, intrigues Henrietta / Chaval uninteresting, unbelievable and whose end is shipped in a page ...
The book deserves to be refocused on certain characters. Some are only touched upon (John Avignon, Becca) and bring nothing to the plot.
As for the story within the story, the fact that Josephine takes it to write a new novel did not suit me.
Last regret leaving Josephine / Philippe reunion outside the field. Heck, we follow for 2 novels Josephine's procrastination to accept the love of Philip, it still deserves to attend their reunion!
And the ultimate question: K. Pancol she prepares a fourth episode?
If this is the case, I will read despite the flaws of it ...