Review: That Mad Ache

That Mad Ache by Françoise Sagan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is the first Francoise Sagan book I read, and I can already tell she is masterful at discussing humans and their relationships and feelings (take that, Jane Austen!). Were I to explain the plot to someone, it would come out sounding boringly trite at best: a frivolous girl is with an older rich man and falls for a younger poor man and problems ensue. I'm glad I wasn't in charge of writing the blurb to this book. 

For some odd reason I would have preferred seeing this set in Paris of the 1920s, rather than the 1960s. No real reason for this, but there you go. 

I look forward to reading more of Sagan's novels. 

View all my reviews