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The secret daughter of a French politician and a famous actress drops the startling revelation that will shatter her family in this beguiling debut novel of intrigue and betrayal.
';There were so many of us, children of these double families who dreamed of the other side.'
Margot Louve is a secret: the child of a longstanding affair between an influential French politician with presidential ambitions and a prominent stage actress. This hidden family exists in stolen moments in a small Parisian apartment on the Left Bank.
It is a house of cards that Margotfueled by a longing to be seen and hearddecides to tumble. The summer of her seventeenth birthday, she meets the man who will set her plan in motion: a well-regarded journalist whose trust seems surprisingly easy to gain.
But as Margot is drawn into an adult world she struggles to comprehend, she learns how one impulsive decision can threaten a family's love with ruin, shattering the lives of those around her in ways she could never have imagined.
Exposing the seams between private lives and public faces, The Margot Affairis a novel of deceit, desire, and transgressionand the exhilarating knife-edge upon which the danger of telling the truth outweighs the cost of keeping secrets.
Advance praise for The Margot Affair
';Subtle, beautiful, serious.'Karen Russell,author ofSwamplandia!
';Sana Lemoine is an extraordinary new talent. One who makes an intergenerational story of loneliness and intrigue read like a diary and a page-turner and a masterful debut, all at once.'Victor LaValle, author ofThe Changeling
';Powerful and affecting . .
. truly exceptional.'Rivka Galchen, author ofLittle Labors
