Une page d'amour

Emile Zola

A Page of Love is the eighth volume in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series. Widow Hélène Grandjean lives with her daughter Jeanne on the heights above Paris, until the child’s illness brings her close to Doctor Henri Deberle. That new relationship unsettles her quiet life in a novel of motherhood, desire, isolation and Parisian bourgeois society.