L'amant inachevé

Rights sold to: China (Jilin Publishing House), Germany (Aufbau), Italy (Mondadori), Spain (Randomhouse Mondadori), Romania (Trei), and Vietnam (Bach Viet).Claire has very vague memories of her first experiences with boys. There is only one boy whom her mind and her body remember clearly. That was the year she was sixteen and she confided everything to her diary, down to the last detail: how he touched her, how he looked at her. It was exciting because the relationship was a secret one, but also because they never went all the way: it remained an unfinished story. Years later, a wife and a mother, and a woman who has explored many sides of her sexuality, she still thinks about him. D. inhabits her memory as a mythical character, as her favorite fantasy, the remedy to dull days. She keeps an eye on him, checks the phone book to make sure he is still alive and not too far from her. She lives a secret double life, and starts her diary again, to escape daily routine and the effect of time passing. One day, she finds herself face to face with D. There is no choice: she has to live this story for real. L'amant inachevé shows in a melancholical way what adolescence is about, including the state of exaltation that is peculiar to this age. Yet Gaëlle Guernalec-Levy also tells us about passionate obsession, desire and sex with an obviousness and a cheerful softness which turn this story into a delightful parenthesis.Gaëlle Guernalec-Levy is thirty-three years old. She has worked as a journalist for ten years. L'amant inachevé is her first novel. In 2007 she published Je ne suis pas enceinte (Stock), a study on pregnant women who deny their condition.