The Suicide Shop
Translated by Sue Dyson
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Imagine a shop that for generations has sold all the accoutrements for the perfect suicide. This family business prospers in all its bleak misery, until the day it encounters joie de vivre in the shape of younger son, Alan.
What will become of The Suicide Shop in the face of Alan's relentless good cheer, optimism and determination to make the customers smile?
In this futuristic novel, which has sold 53,000 copies in hardback in France, Jean Teulé humourously explores the universal themes of life, death and family.
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And another... Vulpes Libris review
Yet another... Caroline Smailes review, March 30th 2008
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See what the lovely Simon at The Big Green Bookshop had to say on June 28th 08
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Also published by Gallic Books
The Marquis de Montespan and his new wife, Athénaïs, are a true love-match- a rarity amongst the nobility of seventeenth-century France.
But love is not enough to maintain their hedonistic lifestyle, and the couple soon face huge debts. When Madame de Montespan is offered the chance to become lady-in-waiting to the Queen at Versailles, she seizes this opportunity to turn their fortunes round.
But love is not enough to maintain their hedonistic lifestyle, and the couple soon face huge debts. When Madame de Montespan is offered the chance to become lady-in-waiting to the Queen at Versailles, she seizes this opportunity to turn their fortunes round.
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