The Little French Bistro: A Novel

"I started this novel in July with low expectations. The title suggested something breezy, but the book opens with the musings of a suicidal, 60-something German housewife – not exactly the summer read I had expected. I was won over by Nina George’s smart, unsentimental story, its free-spirited characters and its fierce undercurrent of hope, as the miserable Marianne Messmann changes her life by becoming part of a tight-knit Breton community. The Little French Bistro is about the transformative power of love – a hard-nosed fairy tale for grown-ups."