Marion Millo

Tout rendre au vent

Give it All Back to the Wind

February 1, 2021
Novel
200 pages
145 × 205 mm
16 €
9782366245493
978-2-3662-4549-3
																Marion Millo, Tout rendre au vent
																Marion Millo, Tout rendre au vent

Three women, from three successive generations, whose destinies are intimately linked, will end up intertwined.

In the 1950s, Anna, orphaned by her mother and rejected by her father, is at the service of a bourgeois family. Harassed by the owner of the castle, she finds herself pregnant and must leave her job, leaving the child to the mistress of the house, who cannot have one.
Katel fled very early on from the large house in which she grew up to go to Paris, at the end of the 1960s, where she became involved in student revolts and especially in the feminist struggles whose cause she continues to champion.
Lucie also grew up in this bourgeois house and diligently studied law.
But contrary to the wishes of her grandmother, who raised her, it is the police that she wants to join as a police commissioner. Far from her native region, she finds herself having to investigate a series of rapes in 2012.

Each in their own way, Anna, Katel and then Lucie will have to stand up for themselves, thwart the conventions and prejudices of their time, to weaving once again the hidden ties of kinship that unite them and thus regain their full and complete identity.

The author

Born in Antibes in 1975, Marion Millo moved to Brittany 15 years ago. She lives and works in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d’Armor. Her writing is marked by the worlds she lives in, just as they live in her: feminist commitment, working alongside people in vulnerable situations.

She published a collection of short stories, L’Innocence, in 2019. Her first novel Tout rendre au vent was published in 2021 by Cambourakis. Les mots bleus is her second novel.

Strong points

First novel by Marion Millo, this text intertwines the destinies of three women, from three different generations, linked by a common determination to take their destiny into their own hands and by family secrets hidden over several generations.

A feminist novel of sisterhood, which testifies to the importance of women’s struggles, as activists, but also in family and professional life.

A text carried by these intertwined destinies of perfectly controlled construction, where it is a question of desire, struggles, especially against violence against women and the role that society assigns to them, with nature and the sea playing the role of a protective and setting.

February 1, 2021
Novel
200 pages
145 × 205 mm
16 €
9782366245493
978-2-3662-4549-3