Jeanne Legaud is eighty-one and she has a big family: five children, ten grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren. Attentive mother and grandmother, sweet and reserved, she is still in good shape.
So when her children decide together that she is too old to live alone, she is furious... And determined to make them drool! From her small studio in the retirement home, she organizes a Machiavellian plan. If they wanted to get rid of her, she is determined to fight back.
Making them believe that she is suffering from senile dementia, Alzheimer's and Tourette syndrome
swearing like a trooper
having his grandson arrested by the police or going out without pants: everything is good to embarrass them!
However, at the nursing home, she is not fooling a merry band of old troublemakers: Loulou, Jo, Léon, Lucienne and Paddy want her to join the party and their monthly dinners during which they confess one regret so that the others can find solutions.
Thanks to the gang, Jeanne is transformed, ready to live fully, to face her old demons and even, who knows, to fall in love again. And we cannot say that her whole family is delighted!
So who said life stopped at 80? Certainly not those fiery octogenarians!
- Fell the wing of freedom: these guys don't have time to loose with complaints, regrets and doubts.
- Vivacious, caustic and definitely funny... but not only!
- Winner of the 2016 “Aufeminin e-write award”, which revealed among others Virginie Grimaldi and Olivier Norek
Charlye Ménétrier McGrath used to work in the music industry. She is now a writer.