Homesickness

Hestia lives an emotionally precarious existence. She has lived with boyfriends but has never achieved penetrative sex until she is raped. She gives birth to Ilona but dies when her daughter is ten. Daniel, her gay friend, adopts the child. Their story—a yearning for home, for a sense of belonging and connectedness, unites the trio at the heart of the novel. is English. She lives in Strasbourg and teaches at the -University Paris XII, Val de Marne. In 2003, she published the results of her doctoral thesis on intertextualities in the fiction of A.S. Byatt. is her first novel.