Pétronille

With wry humor and a deceptively simple style, Ptronille tells an unusual story about twin abiding passions: one for champagne, and the other for a riotous friendship between her protagonist and Ptronille Fanto, a woman who refuses to drink alone.

This is a funny, moving, "exotic" novel about travel, France, champagne, and, above all, about women's friendship. The on-again/off-again friendship between Ptronille and the main character in the book, who happens to be a writer by the name of Amlie Nothomb, gives the story its verve and the novel its heart. This is literary Thelma & Louise, with a little bit of French panache and a whole lot of champagne thrown in.