Heron Books is delighted to welcome Cécile Tlili to celebrate the publication of Just a Little Dinner.
Do join us to meet Cécile, enjoy a discussion with her publisher, Richard Village of Foundry Books, and get your copies signed.
The event is free. Please RSVP to read@heronbooks.co.uk so that we know how many to expect.
About the book:
In tired, hot Paris at the end of August, a group of friends, who’d rather still be at the sea, meet for a dinner in one couple’s apartment. Taking us behind the shutters of the Sixth Arrondissement, with a cast of characters that both delight and repel, fractured relationships, manipulation, bad behaviour and desperation are all laid bare in this very contemporary take on a Parisian huis clos story. What starts as just a little dinner ends up having monumental consequences for everyone.
Cécile Tlili co-founded an alternative school for neuroatypical children. Just a Little Dinner is her first novel. The book was shortlisted for the 2024 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman and won the 2023 Prix Littéraire Gisèle Halimi for women’s writing.
Translated from French by Katherine Gregor. Katherine is a literary translator from Italian and French. She translates fiction, non-fiction and plays and recent work includes Ashes in the Snow by de Oriana Ramunno, Bridges of the World by Giancarlo Ascari and Pia Valentinis, The Memory of the Air by Caroline Lamarche (winner of an English PEN Translates Award), Vanda by Marion Brunet and The Whisperer’s Game by Donato Carrisi.
This event is made possible with the support of the Institut Français in the United Kingdom.