Bøger af Hannelore Cayre

She had been dead now for four days and I had become rich. Unimaginably rich. Blanche de Rigny has always considered herself the black sheep of the family. And a black sheep on crutches at that. But it turns out her family tree has branches she didn't even know existed. And many of them are rotten to the core. As Blanche learns more about the legacy left by her wealthy Parisian ancestors, she decides a little family tree pruning might be in order. But great wealth also brings great responsibility - a form of richesse oblige, perhaps - and Blanche has a plan to use her inheritance to cure the world of its ills. Spanning two centuries, from Paris on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War to the modern day, this unforgettable family saga lays bare the persistent and poisonous injustice of inequality. In her trademark razor-sharp style, Hannelore Cayre again delivers the sardonic humour and devilish creativity that made The Godmother an international bestseller.

Meet Patience Portefeux, an underpaid fifty-three-year-old Franco-Arab interpreter for the Ministry of Justice who specializes in phone tapping. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is now wedged between university fees for her daughters and nursing home costs for her mother. When she happens upon an especially revealing set of police wiretaps ahead of all other authorities, Patience makes a life-altering decision that sets her on an entirely new, illicit career path and sees her become The Godmother. With its gallery of traffickers, dealers, police officers and politicians, Hannelore Cayre's bestselling novel The Godmother casts a sharp and amusing gaze on everyday survival in contemporary France. Hannelore Cayre is an award-winning French novelist, screenwriter, director and practicing criminal lawyer. Her works include Legal Aid, Toiles de maître and Comme au cinéma. After working as a lawyer in Sydney and London, translator Stephanie Smee made her literary debut with an English translation of the Countess of Ségur's Fleurville Trilogy.