Nothing Holds Back the Night

In this moving autobiographical novel, the narrator's mother, Lucile, raises her two daughters largely alone. A former child model from a large Bohemian family, Lucile is younger and more glamorous than the other mothers: always in lipstick and stylishly dressed, wayward and wonderful. But as the years pass her occasional sadness gives way to overwhelming despair and delusion. This is a story of luminous beauty and rambunctious joy, of dark secrets and silences, revelations and, ultimately, the unknowability of even those closest to us. And in the face of the unknowable, personal history becomes fiction. is universally recognisable and singularly heartbreaking.

Product details

• Authors: Delphine De Vigan, Vigan Delphine de
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2014
• EAN: 9781408843451
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-4345-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary