![]() ![]() When Helen is sexually victimized by her brothers, Frank provides a Their shared hatred for their neglectful families, including their imperiousįathers. Novel” - Helen is “small, anxious, misunderstood.” They initially bond over ![]() ![]() Most important thing was to know the codes and respect them.” Where Frank isĬharming and mysterious - not unlike “some character in an unnerving Brontë They both grow up in the stuffy, pretentious world of embassies, “where the Speeches, of censure, of post-war poverty.” The children of British diplomats, What follows is a long, winding monologue about the history of their relationship, as Helen reckons with Frank’s hold over her, as well as her own culpability in the tragic death of Frank’s son and their severed relationship.įrank are teenagers in Rome - “the Rome of Pope Pius XII and his god-awful Kerninon’s narrator, Helen, is a septuagenarian writer, who has crossed paths with her former lover Frank on the streets of London. ( A Respectable Occupation, Kerninon’s memoir about her life as a reader and writer, was translated by Ruth Diver and published in the UK in 2019.) The novel, which won the 2018 Fénéon Literary Prize, awarded to writers and artists under thirty-five, is about the damaging, even violent charge of erotic connection. My Devotion, which was translated from French by Alison Anderson, is Julia Kerninon’s third novel, but the first to be published in English. ![]()
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