Serge is brilliant, enterprising, and narcissistic. Marianne is sincere, passionate, and determined to be happy. *Cherchez la femme* tells the "complete story" of their relationship. Before the reader's eyes, their life takes shape, settles down, they have children, they flourish, they face the test of time and the heartbreak of infidelity... Are our emotional destinies truly free? How much do the dreams and failures of a generation weigh on us?
Serge is brilliant, enterprising, and narcissistic. Marianne is sincere, passionate, and determined to be happy. *Cherchez la femme* tells the "total story" of their relationship. Before the reader's eyes, it takes shape, establishes itself, produces children, flourishes, and is tested by time and the heartbreak of infidelity… Are our emotional destinies truly free? How much do the dreams and failures of the previous generation weigh? What obscure forces (the past, childhood, social background, money, career, convictions, values) are at work in married life and threaten this fragile intertwining of two solitudes committed to one another? In the form of a character study, *Cherchez la femme* is a captivating book, full of intelligence and humor, which retrospectively dissects the delicate mechanisms of marriage and, in doing so, reveals to its characters the secrets of their modest saga. With passionate writing, Alice Ferney observes the couple's astonishing journey, their raptures and depressions, their defenses and breakdowns. She rediscovers the words of illusion and those of quarrel, those of reconciliation and those of defeat. Above all, those that allow us to answer the question that the state of grace always defers to the future: what does "loving each other" mean?
