The secret daughter of a French politician and a famous actress drops the startling revelation that will shatter her family in this beguiling debut novel of intrigue and betrayal.
Margot Louve is a secret: the child of a longstanding affair between an influential French politician with presidential ambitions and a prominent stage actress. This hidden family exists in stolen moments in a small Parisian apartment on the Left Bank.
It is a house of cards that Margotβfueled by a longing to be seen and heardβdecides to tumble. The summer of her seventeenth birthday, she meets the man who will set her plan in motion: a well-regarded journalist whose trust seems surprisingly easy to gain. But as Margot is drawn into an adult world she struggles to comprehend, she learns how one impulsive decision can threaten a familyβs love with ruin, shattering the lives of those around her in ways she could never have imagined.
Exposing the seams between private lives and public faces,The Margot Affairis a novel of deceit, desire, and transgressionβand the exhilarating knife-edge upon which the danger of telling the truth outweighs the cost of keeping secrets.