At the Parisian, we warmly applauded so much we had loved “The Hour of Women”, this novel written by the journalist Adèle Bréau which traces the life of her grandmother, Menie Grégoire, host of RTL radio in the 1970s. This amazing story on this incredible woman who revolutionized the lives of thousands of women by daring to talk to them about ity, domestic violence, won the Maison de la presse 2023 prize this Saturday.
Very coveted, because among the most influential, the price of this brand with 600 points of sale in France rewards each year a young French-language author for quality novels for the general public. It has revealed big names in French literature such as Valérie Perrin crowning the sublime “Changer l’eau des fleurs”which sold 75,000 large-format copies and more than a million in the pocket, but also Olivier Norek, Michel Bussi and Agnès Ledig.
“My novel speaks of this France which liked to find itself in the heart of the afternoon around the voice of my grandmother to express its sorrows, its hopes and the little things which make existences too often isolated, suddenly reunited” , said Adèle Bréau, fashion director of Gala magazine, who signs her seventh novel here.
“The hour of women” is a “moving, surprising novel, and skilfully constructed from several narrative plots, welcomed the president of the jury, Tatiana de Rosnay. It explores over five decades the advances, paradoxes and regressions of the female condition, putting them in resonance through the destinies of women from the end of the 1960s and today in a resolutely romantic fresco. »