Gratitude

With Gratitude, she has made a bold choice of subject matter … She is swimming energetically against the tide, because this is literary terrain neglected – not to say shunned – by many other novelists … The novel steadily accumulates into a moving tale of how unfinished business can be dealt with without diminishing the dignity of old age * i paper * Poignant * Observer * A slim but powerful meditation on the nature of gratitude …. As with all the best fiction, what is ordinary has been elevated to the extraordinary … The beating heart of this novel is the exquisite empathy it demonstrates for the elderly and the process of aging … There is a gentle magnificence at work in its pages * Irish Times * Tender, poignant and heartfelt, this slender volume packs a huge emotional punch … [a] generous novel that celebrates communication, connection and courage * Daily Mail * Taut and poignant ... There's sadness in this simple tale * Sunday Telegraph * A short, elegant novel * Saga * Praise for Delphine de Vigan: ‘Delphine de Vigan's dark family thrillers are a cult sensation * i * A moving portrait of aging, devotion and love ... It stayed in my thoughts long after reading * Eurolit Network * The latest literary sensation ... It has people in a word-of-mouth frenzy I’ve not seen since Gone Girl * Daily Telegraph * One of the finest writers of psychological fiction in France today * France Magazine * You’re kept reading helplessly to the desperate cliffhanger finish * Daily Mail * Taut and fascinating ... A moving tribute to the power the bonds of love * Guardian * A taut, intense novel of secrets, lies and the unknowable depths of others * Tatler * Dark, smart, strange, compelling – and tremendously French -- Harriet Lane I’ve never read a book that makes the complex relationship between reality and fiction both as visible, and at the same time so opaque, as here. I was captivated. * Independent * de Vigan plays with the tropes of the psychological thriller, but her work is steeped in philosophical ruminations -- Joanna Briscoe * Guardian * Frighteningly honest, precise and thrilling * Observer *