· MARGUERITE. by Marina Kemp ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ma. Centering her first novel around a rural French village and the young Parisian who has come there as a traveling nurse, British author Kemp writes about the cost of suppressed passions—love, guilt, revenge—and the risk of secrecy. Twenty-four-year-old Marguerite Demers is caring for the elderly, gravely ill Jérôme Lanvier Author: Marina Kemp. Marguerite Demers is twenty-five when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern village of Saint Sulpice to take up a job as a live-in nurse. Her charge is Jerome Lanvier--once one of the most powerful men in the village, now dying alone in his large and secluded house surrounded by rambling neglected gardens. Manipulative and tyrannical, Jerome has scared away all of his previous caretakers. 'Marguerite', by Marina Kemp, is a character based novel that caught me from the very first pages. When Marguerite Demers, a 25 year old nurse, arrives in a small French town to care for Jerome, a misanthropic old man, the tension builds relentlessly and continues until the very end of the book/5(58).
The latest tweets from @MarinaKempPull. Marguerite Marina Kemp. Marguerite Demers is twenty-five when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern village of Saint Sulpice to take up a job as a live-in nurse. Her charge is Jerome Lanvier--once one of the most powerful men in the village, now dying alone in his large and secluded house surrounded by rambling neglected gardens. By Marina Kemp. | The Times. I should never have gone to the party in the first place. Nine months earlier, I'd received the surreal but happy news that a literary agent wanted to sign my first novel, Nightingale, having read the first 30, words. I was now trying to balance my job with producing a finished, full-length manuscript, but I.
Set among the lush fields and olive groves of southern France, and written in clear prose of luminous beauty, Marguerite is an unforgettable novel that traces the ways in which guilt can be transformed, and how people can unexpectedly find a sense of redemption. Marguerite. Marina Kemp. Viking, $26 (p) ISBN In Kemp’s stellar debut, a young nurse gets caught up in romance, jealousy, and gossip on a farm in the South of France. Marguerite by Marina Kemp has an overall rating of Rave based on 7 book reviews.
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