The godmother [Paperback]
Cayre, Hannelore, 1963-2019
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Meet Patience Portefeux, fifty-three, an underpaid French-Arabic translator who specialises in police phone taps. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is wedged between the costs of raising her daughters and the nursing home fees for her ageing mother. She's laboured for twenty-five years to keep everyone's heads above water. Happening upon an especially revealing set of wiretaps ahead of all other authorities, Patience makes a life-altering decision that sees her intervening in - and infiltrating - the machinations of a massive drug deal. She thus embarks on an entirely new career path- Patience becomes 'the Godmother'. With a gallery of traffickers, dealers, police officers and politicians more real than life itself, and an unforgettable woman at its centre, Hannelore Cayre's bestselling novel shines a torchlight on a European criminal underworld that has rarely been seen, casting a piercing and darkly humorous gaze on everyday survival in con-temporary France.
Main title:
The godmother [Paperback] / Hannelore Cayre ; translated by Stephanie Smee.
Author:
Cayre, Hannelore, 1963-, authorSmee, Stephanie, translator
Imprint:
Carlton, Vic. : Black Inc., 2019.©2019
Collation:
199 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in French: France, 2017.[Translated from the French]
Awards:
Winner of the 2020 CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger
ISBN:
9781760641610 (paperback)
Dewey class:
843.92
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
358400
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - Crime | CAYR | Available |
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - Crime | CAYR | Onloan - Due: 16 May 2024 |
| Brighton Library | Paperbacks | C | Available |