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Annie de Monchaux Annie de Monchaux i(A11147 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 1 y separately published work icon Audrey's Gone AWOL Annie de Monchaux , Ultimo : Ultimo Press , 2024 27285078 2024 single work novel

'It’s never too late to reinvent your life

'Audrey Lamont has happily devoted herself to family life for the best part of 40 years, but lately she’s become aware that she lost herself somewhere between 'I do' and the weekly shop.

'Worse, her academic husband Simon has found time for romance – just not with Audrey. Feeling invisible to everyone, even herself, she flees to her aunt’s home in rural France.

'While waiting for her sudden absence to spark a change of heart in Simon, Audrey finds solace in the charms of the French countryside and the company of her aged aunt and a cast of eccentric Bretons.

'But soon Audrey discovers going AWOL might do more than save her marriage, it might change her life …'  (Publication summary)
1 On Wearing Black Bathers While Pregnant Annie de Monchaux , 1994 single work short story
— Appears in: Fremantle Stories 1994; (p. 42)
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