Tata

Autorentext

Valérie Perrin was born in 1967 in France. Her novel Forgotten on Sunday (2015) won the Booksellers Choice Award in France and has been long-selling bestseller since publication. Her English-language debut, Fresh Water for Flowers (Europa, 2020) won the Maison de la Presse Prize, the Paperback Readers Prize, and was named a 2020 ABA Indies Introduce and Indie Next List title. It has been translated into over thirty languages. Figaro Littéraire named Perrin one of the ten best-selling authors in France in 2019, and in Italy, Fresh Water for Flowers was the bestselling book of 2020.

Klappentext

LONGLISTED: The Entente Littéraire Prize 2026

A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated Book

Valérie Perrin's first new novel since her breakout bestseller Fresh Water for Flowers

**"Valérie Perrin is a prodigious storyteller."-Elle **

**"Perrin's most ambitious, most intimate, most liberating, most important book yet."-Le Parisien

Tata begins with a mystery - Agnes is asked to identify the body of her aunt Colette-who, as far as she knows, died three years earlier.

From this phone call, Valerie Perrin crafts a compelling blend of family saga and literary suspense. As Agnes searches for the truth, buried secrets and

hidden lives come to light, revealing an unforgettable cast of characters and the story of the woman she thought she knew, whose decision to fake her own death sets in motion a layered tale of resilience, identity, and reinvention.

Told with humour and emotional depth, Tata is a captivating story about the mysteries that shape a life and the courage that

is required of women who choose to forge one's own path.