Like a QuZbZcois Bridget Jones's Diary, this work tells the hysterically funny and ultimately touching tale of 48-year-old Diane, a woman whose husband leaves her and is having an affair because, he says, she bores him. Diane takes the charge to heart and undertakes an often ribald, highly entertaining journey to restoring trust in herself and others.nd others.
MARIE-RENÉE LAVOIE was born in 1974 in Limoilou, near Quebec City. She is the author of three novels, including Mister Roger and Me, which won ICI Radio-Canada's "Battle of the Books" - the Quebec equivalent of "Canada Reads" - and the Archambault Prize. She lives in Montreal, where she teaches literature at Maisonneuve College.