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The Guardian - UK
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Sarah Shaffi

Unfinished novel by Françoise Sagan published posthumously

French novelist Françoise Sagan.
French novelist Françoise Sagan. Photograph: LIDO/EPA

A novel by the French author Françoise Sagan has been published posthumously – but, despite the suggestion that a novelist such as Leïla Slimani or Anne Berest might finish it, it has been published in its incomplete state.

The Four Corners of the Heart, out this week in a translation by Sophie R Lewis, tells the story of Marie-Laure, whose husband, Ludovic, returns home three years after a devastating car accident that left him in a fragile mental and physical condition.

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