À l'ombre de la colline aux ours de Jean-pierre Mabille / In the Shadow of Bear Hill by Jean-Pierre Mabille (chronique)

from the "White" collection of ÉDITIONS EX ÆQUO Hello little "lus"! Like every Friday we go to discover a book. But this time I changed my reading style. I like not always reading the same thing and not being locked into a literary genre. Open-mindedness also requires diversity and curiosity. Enough talk! Jean-Pierre Mabille is no stranger to us. (Really?) remember  little voice, we featured this author and columnist (chrocoteur) some time ago in a self-published book called "Gemma". (Yesss, the sci-fi story with the child who is born with two heads!! You said it was a very successful philosophical tale, if I remember correctly!) Absolutely. Jean-Pierre warned me that his publishing house, he is a hybrid author like me, offered a press service on his book "In the shade of bear hill". I went to read the summary and I thought "Why not!". I didn't know what to expect, I have to admit. (Might be better, right?) You're probably right, Imédébasket. This book is 240 pages, is a novel for all audiences, priced at 20 euros (paper format) and 3.99 euros (e-book format), published by  ÉDITIONS EX ÆQUO. The cover is poetic and soft representing a wood with a sunbeam which seems to warm the atmosphere. The back cover "Aline was only twenty years old when her parents died in a train accident. Nothing and no one could console her. And it was with a heavy heart that she abandoned them in the gloomy resting field open to the winds of the Cauchois country. She has the excruciating feeling of having deposited them in hell. When I return, I will flower you for eternity, she promises them. A few years later, she was mayor of Touffreville-la-Corbeline. She is passionately committed to the successful creation of the new community cemetery located in her native village. The final resting place of those we have cherished and still love must be worthy of the happy memories they have given us as a legacy. Olivier, Thierry and Pierre, his colleagues and friends will help him realize his dream. But it is above all Antoine Guilbert, an original and passionate landscaper, who will allow him to make it happen, beyond all hope. Because, for him, it is by giving the dying a foretaste of paradise that we offer the greatest hope of happiness to the living." (...) (en français sur le site et en anglais / in French on the site and in English)