No and Me

Name: No and Me
Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Author: Delphine de Vigan
ISBN: 9780747599647

by Delphine de Vigan

3.0

(2 ratings)

245 pages2010Bloomsbury PaperbacksISBN 9780747599647

Dysfunctional families

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About this book

Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160 and a good friend in class rebel Lucas. At home her father puts a brave face on things but cries in secret in the bathroom, while her mother rarely speaks and hardly ever leaves the house. To escape this desolate world, Lou goes often to Gare d'Austerlitz to see the big emotions in the smiles and tears of arrival and departure. But there she also sees the homeless, meets a girl called No, only a few years older than herself, and decides to make homelessness the topic of her class presentation. Bit by bit, Lou and No become friends until, the project over, No disappears. Heartbroken, Lou asks her parents the unaskable question and her parents say- Yes, No can come to live with them. So Lou goes down into the underworld of Paris's street people to bring her friend up to the light of a home and family life, she thinks.

Publication Details

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Published: 2010
Pages: 245
ISBN: 9780747599647
Language: en

About Delphine de Vigan

Delphine de Vigan est une romancière, scénariste et réalisatrice française, née le 1er mars 1966 à Boulogne-Billancourt. Un de ses premiers romans, *No et moi,* publié en 2007, a reçu le prix des libraires. Son œuvre comprend aussi notamment le roman *D’après une histoire vraie,* couronné en 2015 par le prix Renaudot et par le prix Goncourt des lycéens. ---------- Delphine de Vigan is a French novelist, screenwriter, and director, born on March 1, 1966, in Boulogne-Billancourt. One of her first novels, *No et moi*, published in 2007, received the Prix des Libraires. Her work also includes the novel *D’après une histoire vraie*, which won the Prix Renaudot and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in 2015.