The Godmother
The Godmother
by Hannelore Cayre
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- Winner, 2019 European Crime Fiction Prize
- Winner, 2019 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
- Winner, 2020 CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger Award
- New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2019"
The French bestseller La Daronne, now a major film starring Isabelle Huppert. This is an English translation of the French book, translated by an Australian translator.
Meet Patience Portefeux, fifty-three, an underpaid French-Arabic translator who specialises in police phone taps. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is wedged between the costs of raising her daughters and the nursing home fees for her ageing mother. She’s laboured for twenty-five years to keep everyone’s heads above water.
Happening upon an especially revealing set of wiretaps ahead of all other authorities, Patience makes a life-altering decision that sees her intervening in – and infiltrating – the machinations of a massive drug deal. She thus embarks on an entirely new career path: Patience becomes ‘the Godmother’.
With a gallery of traffickers, dealers, police officers and politicians more real than life itself, and an unforgettable woman at its centre, Hannelore Cayre’s bestselling novel shines a torchlight on a European criminal underworld that has rarely been seen, casting a piercing and darkly humorous gaze on everyday survival in contemporary France.
