Jonathan Kerr

On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.

In a village in the north, the life of a family is turned upside down : the mother's affair denounced by her opportunistic son, and the father weighed down by his failing business.

From birth to death every subject remains intact. Three ages, three women. Daughter, mother, grandmother. Each of them before and after still and always. And the men too, those they meet those they love.

Lola is still a virgin at the age of twenty-five. Her friends decide to stick their noses into it. Memoirs of a Disturbed Young Lady is the story of a mad chase after a politically correct loss of virginity.