Katherine Pancol

Katherine Pancol was born in Casablanca, in Morocco. At the age of 5, Katherine moved to France.

She makes literary study, becomes a French-Latin teacher and one day, at random of a meeting, she became journalist.

One day an editor asked her to write a book. First she wrote « Moi d’abord » in 1979. The success is very fast. She went to New-York to know a new world, a new language and a new way of living.

She took courses and met some writers, editors, scriptwriters..

In 1981 she wrôte « Le Barbare » , « Scarlett, si possible » and « Les hommes cruels ne courent pas les rues. »

She has two kids, a girl and a boy. She got married, came to France, divorced, but she continued to wrote novels : « Vu de l’extérieur », « une si belle image », «Encore une danse », « J’étais là avant », « Et monter lentement dans un immense amour », « Un homme à distance », « Embrassez-moi ».

In 2006 she wrote « Les yeux jaunes des crocodiles » , in 2008 « La valse lente des tortues » and in April 2010 « Les écureuils de Central Park sont tristes le lundi ».

I read the last three books and I LOVED them.

It’s a kind of trilogy. Funny, exciting, and when I began to read the first, I couldn't stop ! I love the way she writes and think that all the people who like to read some funny stories, will love these three !

These books are about a woman, who's just separated from her husband. She has two girls. She must find a job to satisfy at the needs of her family. Her sister is a rich woman with a good situation and ask her to write a book for her. She writes it and becomes famous, but a lot of events happen and trouble the well tidied-up life of this woman: her best friend has troubles too, several people are murdered, she falls in love with a strange man...! And if you want to know the continuation, read the books!

I advise you to go fast to buy them and to plunge you into this exciting universe! :-)

 

                                                                                                                                                        Audrey